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Ming, Kavin; Dukes, Charles – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
For a number of students, early failure is highly predictive of later failure, severely limiting the development of skilled reading. Students who do not read fluently generally do not become good readers. In addition, students with inadequate fluency are likely to avoid reading because of fear of failure and negative attitudes--and students who…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Failure, Phonemic Awareness
Oakley, Nancy – 1988
A study was undertaken during 1982-83 to determine the number of lesson-hours it took to raise the reading level one grade of students (16 years of age and older) enrolled in Project: LEARN, a nonprofit Cleveland program that provides free reading and writing lessons to older youth and adults reading at third-grade level and below. Among them are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Correctional Education