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Download full textKunze, Caroline Ryan – 1994
A practicum was developed to improve the inferential comprehension, the textual and functional skills, and the overall attitudes toward reading of fifth-grade students. A target group of six students in a private school who were deficient in these skills was established. The practicum contained basic strategies for improving reading skills and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Private Schools, Reading Attitudes
Oppelt, Shirley – 1991
A practicum developed and implemented an integrated reading program to raise reading vocabulary and comprehension scores and reading attitudes in a fourth-grade classroom. A classroom of 23 students was used to implement the program. A standard diagnostic test was used to record pre- and post-test scores in vocabulary and comprehension, and a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Program Descriptions
Stasko, Mary I. – 1991
A practicum addressed the high percentage of students who were experiencing difficulty with reading comprehension and vocabulary retention in a fifth-grade Drop Out Prevention class by implementing a supplemental whole-language program. Subjects were 19 fifth-grade students. An informal reading inventory, an attitude survey, and academic grades…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Grade 5
Finkelstein, Karen S. – 1992
The practicum described in this report was designed to make a significant difference in increasing students' language expression by assisting teachers with the appropriate techniques to incorporate effectively the writing process in an integrated language arts curriculum. The target group consisted of 150 fourth-grade students and the 5…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement, Integrated Curriculum
Orr, Patricia B. – 1989
This practicum report describes an individualized multiple methods/materials approach to the teaching of reading to improve the critical reading skills of seventh grade students in a middle school in Georgia. The core of the program was the use of novels selected with the particular interests of adolescents in mind. Sixty-four students in the…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Critical Reading, Grade 7, Independent Reading
Luckhart, Anne F. – 1990
This practicum was designed to improve the congruency of resources, activities, and assessment strategies in intermediate-level language arts programs with a holistic process-oriented perspective on literacy development. Taking place in a large public elementary school in Vancouver, Canada, the practicum's goals were: (1) to implement…
Descriptors: Holistic Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
