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St. John, Edward P.; Loescher, Siri Ann; Bardzell, Jeffrey S. – 2003
Early reading and literacy have become the focus of policymakers, with a renewed emphasis on the early grades. This resource provides a guide to important and effective research-based reading programs. The guide's in-depth coverage analyzes and compares features, frameworks, tools, methods, and reform components for the following 17 major reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Honig, Bill – School Administrator, 1997
Extensive research and practical experience demonstrate that learning to read comes less naturally than learning to speak. Although half of all children intuit the alphabetic system from exposure to print and context-driven activities, many (particularly dyslexic, low-socioeconomic, and second-language kids) need an organized program that teaches…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Bilingual Education, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia
Dole, Janice A.; Osborn, Jean – 1989
This report provides administrators and supervisors of reading programs with information to help them evaluate and select commercially developed reading materials. Part 1 opens with a description of the problems researchers studying the adoption of basal reading programs have observed and then offers suggestions (based on both research and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Basal Reading, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
Ferris, Frank – 1983
The Content Area Learning/Reading Project at the Cosgrove Junior High School in Spencerport, New York, was initiated in the fall of 1979. The goals of the project were to foster effective instruction in all classrooms and to promote instruction based on sound principles and practices as indicated by research and by review of successful content…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Methods
Gunderson, Doris V. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin is the first in a series of summaries of research conducted in reading from 1955 to 1960. The publication includes both published and unpublished research during the 5-year period. The published research has been compiled largely from studies reported in educational periodicals. The unpublished research was made available through a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary School Students, Reading Research