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Peer reviewedLutz, Elaine – Journal of Reading, 1986
Presents a variety of parent programs, projects, and activities that have been successful in involving parents in their adolescents' reading and reading achievement. (HOD)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Peer reviewedGrohens, Joe – Reading Teacher, 1988
Examines the research relating nutrition and diet to achievement in reading and language arts, and suggests ways teachers and parents can use this information. (ARH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Breakfast Programs, Cognitive Development, Eating Habits
Download full textAfflerbach, Peter, Ed. – 1990
This paper presents six chapters that describe how statewide reading assessment is currently being performed and how the data are being used. The validity of statewide reading assessment instruments and the appropriate uses of statewide reading assessment data are explored. Several chapters discuss new ways in which some states conduct reading…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1997
Presents annotations of eight books, journal articles, and research reports (published between 1991 and 1995) on the topic of helping underachieving readers. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Low Achievement
Mardis, Marcia A. – 2003
This ERIC Digest is intended to help eligible school library personnel write an effective proposal for the "Improving Literacy Through School Libraries" (LSL) grant program, which provides funding for high-need K-12 school library programs to improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to school library…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Programs
Berger, Allen, Ed.; Robinson, H. Alan, Ed. – 1982
Intended to help the secondary school classroom teacher make use of some of the current research related to reading instruction, this book contains reviews of the literature on the various aspects of secondary school reading. Each of the 12 chapters begins with an introduction to set the stage and ends with a conclusion to put the ideas into…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Literacy, Learning Processes, Literature
Weiler, Jeanne – 1998
Success for All (SFA), a schoolwide research-based reform model developed by Robert Slavin and his associates at Johns Hopkins University, is based on the premise that all students can and must succeed in the early grades. The program targets students in the lower grades, providing them with intensive instruction in language arts. This effort is…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Research
