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Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1972
Four Intensive Reading Instructional Teams (IRITs) consisting of a reading consultant, two master teachers, and a clerk typist provided intensive compensatory reading instruction for more than 500 Hartford third, fourth, and fifth grade students during the 1971-72 school year. The approach of the IRITs was geared to the concept of individualized…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Individualized Reading
Skailand, Dawn – 1972
This report describes the main field test of Minicourse 18: Teaching Reading as Decoding. The purposes of the main field test were: (1) to evaluate the effects of the course on the participating teachers, (2) to evaluate four reteach treatments on teacher skill acquisition, (3) to compare scores for central city and suburban teachers, and (4) to…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Achievement, Reading Programs, Reading Skills
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Holmes, John L. – ESPecialist, 1986
Discusses recognition of cognates used in teaching materials prepared by the English for Specific Purposes Project for academic courses. Presents suggestions based on theoretical considerations of cognate recognition. Examines, by way of protocol studies, how foreign students of English make use of cognate recognition. Suggests that strategies for…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
Miller, George A.; Gildea, Patricia M. – Scientific American, 1987
Discusses some of the processes children use in learning words and putting them into intelligible contexts. Describes some of the difficulties children can have when trying to learn new vocabulary. Briefly reports on efforts to use interactive video technology to enable children to access new words. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Definitions, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
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Lomax, Richard G.; McGee, Lea M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Presents results of tested theoretical models of the development of print concepts and word reading. Indicates that children expand their knowledge in each of the following print components with age: print, graphic awareness, phonemic awareness, grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge, and word reading components. (NKA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
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Freeman, Ruth H.; Freeman, Gerald G. – Reading Psychology, 1987
Examines different approaches to reading acquisition used in four first grades of a suburban elementary school. Supports the use of a language experience approach as a viable alternative to the basal reader approach for teaching reading and writing. (JK)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Language Arts
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2000
This document represents one section of the Delaware Teachers' Desk Reference to Standards and Performance Indicators for Curriculum Planning and Unit Development produced by the Delaware Department of Education. The Desk Reference is part of the Delaware Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide assistance and support to local school…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Information Sources
Archibald, John; Roy, Sylvie; Harmel, Sandra; Jesney, Karen – Online Submission, 2004
This review of the current literature on second language learning was to inform the following four questions: (1) what are the effects of learning a second language on the first language? (2) What is the role of content instruction in offering a second language? (3) What are the effects of learning a second language on students with special needs?…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Syntax, Special Needs Students
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Chikamatsu, Nobuko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the effects of a first-language orthographic system on second-language (L2) word recognition strategies. Lexical judgment tests using Japanese syllabic script were given to native English and native Chinese learners of Japanese. Results indicated that Chinese speakers relied more on visual information in L2 Japanese words, whereas the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Chinese, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
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Arden-Close, Christopher – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1993
Compares strategies used to infer the meanings of unknown words by three NNS readers--a good reader, an average reader, and a poor reader--from a series of six readings. The good reader uses a wider range of strategies than the weaker ones; all readers "read in" meanings from their own specialized subject (in this case chemistry). (15…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Ehrlich, Marie-France; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Examines cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational factors as predictors of individual differences in the reading comprehension abilities of good and poor readers. Finds that regression analyses within subgroups indicated word recognition was the most important predictor variable for poor readers, whereas perceived competence predicted the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Currie, Stephen – Teaching Pre K-8, 1994
Discusses how teachers can use folk songs to explore American history, to teach music, and to improve students' reading and writing skills in one integrated project. (BB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Context Clues, Integrated Activities, Language Arts
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Paribakht, T. Sima; Wesche, Marjorie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Presents a classification scheme for reading-related exercises advocated in English-as-a-Foreign-Language textbooks. The scheme proposes a hierarchy of the degree and type of mental processing required by various vocabulary exercises. The categories of classification are selective attention, recognition, manipulation, interpretation and…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, English (Second Language), Pilot Projects
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Higgins, Eleanor L.; Raskind, Marshall H. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2004
This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of two programs developed by the Frostig Center Research Department to improve the reading and spelling of students with learning disabilities (LD): a computer Speech Recognition-based Program (SRBP) and a computer and text-based Automaticity Program (AP). Twenty-eight LD students with reading…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Learning Disabilities
Desai, Shiv Raj; Marsh, Tyson – Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2005
Spoken word is a form of poetry that utilizes the strengths of the communities: oral tradition, call-and-response, home languages, storytelling, and resistance. Spoken word poetry is usually performed for an audience and must be heard. The authors are interested in investigating how spoken word can be utilized as a critical teaching tool that can…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Oral Tradition, Word Recognition, Poetry
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