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Download full textHaya Shamir; David Pocklington; Kathryn Feehan; Erik Yoder – Online Submission, 2020
This study investigated the impact of a computer-adaptive reading program, Waterford Early Learning (WEL), in an elementary school in Indiana. The study investigated how educational technology, specifically computer-assisted instruction (CAI), would impact the literacy scores of kindergarten students when paired with traditional instruction:…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Special Education
Haya Shamir; David Pocklington; Erik Yoder; Kathryn Feehan – Online Submission, 2019
New technologies have had a large and transformative impact on education. This study explored the benefits of a comprehensive, computer-adaptive reading program for the literacy skills of young learners. Second grade students enrolled in a public school district used a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program and were evaluated at the beginning…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Fidelity
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
In May 2016 an Invitational Symposium on the Reading for Understanding (RfU) Initiative was held in Alexandria, Virginia. Co-hosted by ETS and the Council of Chief State School Officers, the symposium brought together 160 state and local education leaders to examine the results of the RfU initiative. The goal of the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Development
Koby, Cory J. – Research-publishing.net, 2017
The Extensive Reading (ER) approach to second language acquisition is increasingly one of the methods of choice amongst English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators around the world. This method requires learners to read a large volume of easily comprehensible text, and teachers to track and manage their students' progress in some manner. There…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Murris, Karin; Ranchod, Vursha – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2015
The article begins with setting the South African educational context for a postgraduate early literacy research project in the foundation phase (ages 4-9). The research examines how philosophy with children (P4C) might be part of a solution to current problems in reading comprehension. The second author reports on her P4C action research with her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Martin, Corey; Elfreth, Jaime; Feng, Jay – Online Submission, 2014
This research study examined two intervention programs, Read Naturally (computer-assisted) and The Six-Minute Solution (teacher-guided), for the purpose of finding their effects on reading fluency with 3rd grade students at an elementary school. The participants were from two separate third grade classrooms, randomly assigned to one of the two…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction
Cornette, James; And Others – 1981
Intended for reading teachers with gifted students, this paper outlines the characteristics of a gifted reader and suggests methods for adapting the reading curriculum to the needs of such students. The first two sections of the paper discuss the characteristics of the gifted and principles for their identification. The third section discusses…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Kendall, Janet Ross; Hood, Joyce – 1976
Dyer's (1970) model was utilized to examine instructional practices and easy-to-change surrounding conditions variables related to effective primary grade reading programs. Hard-to-change surrounding conditions variables were used in regression analyses as predictors of fourth grade reading achievement in 844 (75%) of the Iowa elementary schools;…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Reading Instruction
Meeker, Mary – 1976
This paper reports on an innovative approach to the teaching of reading. The thrust of the approach lies in application of findings from Meeker's research which since 1963 had identified certain clusters of Guilford's Structure of Intellect and intellectual abilities found to be necessary in the process of learning to read. Several programs are…
Descriptors: Experimental Teaching, Intelligence, Reading Failure, Reading Instruction
Billups, Lovely – 1976
The innovation of an instructional program utilizing "The New York Times" to teach reading skills to an ethnically and educationally diverse group of sixth graders resulted in an overwhelmingly positive response from students. The wide range of subject matter in "The Times" had something for every student, regardless of…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Newspapers, Program Descriptions
Caldwell, Edward C.; Denne, Thomas C. – 1982
While vowels are not consistent at the single-letter level, they tend to be more consistent in letter clusters or higher order units. Therefore, a program designed to teach reading without resorting to teaching single-vowel mappings has been developed. The reading program involves teaching single consonants, selected whole words, and higher order…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Instructional Improvement, Primary Education
Guszak, Frank J. – 1981
An elementary school in Texas has developed a program of reading instruction that immediately provides early readers with ample reading opportunities and materials rather than constraining them with "reading readiness" assessment. Initially, the absence of sufficient reinforcement material in the basal readers required increased amounts of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Smith, Frank – 1976
Theories of reading development may be grouped into roughly two opposing categories, depending on where the source of reading control is assumed to be located. "Outside-in" theories, those characterized by the notion that reading is a hierarchical series of decisions dependent on structured discrimination of print material, clearly predominate.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Reading Development, Reading Instruction
Levine, Ruth R. – 1976
Success-oriented reading program includes both reading diagnosis which emphasizes students' individual strengths and instructional strategies which guide students toward success and minimize situations leading to failure. Techniques which are successful in overcoming learning detractors are: concentration for distractibility, short term goals for…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement
Hall, Conner – 1975
A program for tutorial assistance and tutor training at the University of Texas at Austin is described in this document. The tutorial assistance program attempts to provide help with both study skills and specific course content, since students experiencing academic difficulty in a specific course may request tutoring aid, not realizing that their…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reading Programs
