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Putting Struggling Readers on the PHAST Track: A Program To Integrate Phonological and Strategy-based Remedial Reading Instruction and Maximize Outcomes.
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Lovett, Maureen W.; Lacerenza, Lea; Borden, Susan L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
This article describes PHAST (for Phonological and Strategy Training), a research-based remedial reading program that focuses on the primary obstacles to word identification learning and independent decoding that most students with reading disabilities face and the steps necessary to help these children achieve independent reading skills.…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics, Phonology
Part II: Intervention Issues: Schools as Host Environments: Toward a Schoolwide Reading Improvement Model.
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Kame'enui, Edward J.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Coyne, Michael D. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2000
This article outlines the Schoolwide Reading Improvement Model (SRIM), a model characterized by the strategic integration of research-based practices in assessment, instructional design, and beginning reading instruction. A description of each major stage of the SRIM is provided, along with an example of its application in an Oregon school…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Program Design, Program Development
Development and Implementation of Procedures to Improve the Reading Achievement of Underachieving Elementary Students.
Leckie, Sheila; And Others – 1978
A team of three educators developed and implemented a reading improvement program for first through sixth grade students who displayed discrepancies between their reading achievement and reading abilities. The program involved 283 underachieving students at seven elementary schools. The goal of the program was to provide intervention strategies…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Differentiated Staffs, Elementary Education, Parent Participation
Sustainability of Promising Innovations, November 1, 1998-October 31, 2002. Final Report.
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Vadasy, Patricia – 2002
This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of a project designed to investigate the sustainability of two federally funded intervention programs by school staff. The first, Eastlake High School Inclusion Program, implemented processes and instructional interventions designed to support the full inclusion of students with disabilities…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Design, Program Development
K-Pals: Helping Kindergartners with Reading Readiness: Teachers and Researchers in Partnerships.
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Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Thompson, Anneke; Yen, Loulee; McMaster, Kristen N.; Svenson, Ebba; Yang, Nancy J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2001
This article describes a teacher-researcher collaboration, "Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies for Kindergartens," or K-PALS, which was the reading readiness program produced by the partnership. The development of K-PALS is discussed, along with research showing that it promotes young children's reading development and fits easily into classrooms.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Developmental Reading K-12.
Oklahoma Curriculum Improvement Commission, Oklahoma City. – 1975
This booklet contains suggestions for methods of instruction to improve the reading skills of students in developmental reading programs at all grade levels. The first chapter of the booklet provides a statement of philosophy, objectives, and characteristics of a developmental reading program. The second chapter considers reading readiness as a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Content