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The Development of Project PRIMER: A Community-Based Literacy Program.
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Cronan, Terry A.; Walen, Heather R. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1995
Describes recruitment strategies, roles, and training of participating college students, and barriers to implementation of Project PRIMER (PRoducing Infant/Mother Ethnic Readers). Notes that 147 low-income families participated, that parents engaged in the targeted behaviors, and that children in the high-intervention program showed improvements…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, Low Income
A Survey of Content Reading Program Development in U.S. Schools.
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Gee, Thomas C.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1989
Discusses survey results indicating that 63 percent of United States schools have not considered developing content reading programs even though teachers believe it would improve teaching and learning in their schools. Presents a number of factors that have been suggested as reasons why schools have not established content reading programs. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness