In this study, an undergraduate teacher education course is used to explore whether and how academic reading seminars "reflect the theoretical notion of academic literacies and provide a learning environment for developing academic and professional learning and engagement." The data analyzed in this article are transcribed recordings of…

This collaborative research endeavor, undertaken by a committee composed of the English Language Art (ELA) pedagogical consultants for Québec English School Boards, Kativik, Lower Canada College and Littoral in consultation with the ELA Programs team at the Direction des programmes d'études en formation générale des jeunes (DPEFGJ) at the…

The research project carried out in one primary school in Scotland was guided by an intention to discover and provide up-to-date data on what literacy teachers knew about critical literacy and whether this knowledge was promoted, achieved, and enacted in praxis. By specifically focusing on reading and teachers' approaches to texts, this study…

Recent calls for coursework acceleration, reforms efforts, and promising pedagogical practices have resulted in the reemergence of integrated reading and writing (IRW) courses in community colleges nationwide. To answer such calls, a number of IRW textbooks have been published and implemented rapidly, perhaps out of convenience. This study was a…

If Christian schools desire students to achieve higher-level thinking, then the textbooks that teachers use should reflect such thinking. Using Risner's (1987) methodology, raters classified questions from two Christian publishers' fifth grade reading textbooks based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy (Anderson et al., 2001). The questions in the A…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested in the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) as one strategy to support teachers' and students' transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts. This report provides an early look at the implementation of LDC in sixth-grade Advanced Reading classes in a large Florida…

The purpose of this study was to describe teachers' perspectives and comments about their reading curriculum and instruction at different school levels. A brief historical examination of the English instruction and the contemporary education policies in China was provided. Twelve Chinese teachers of English at different schools levels participated…

Presented in this paper are criteria developed by the states of Washington and Alabama of what is believed to be a quality reading program. "State of Washington Criteria Leading to Excellence in Reading Programming" consists of a list of 25 statements that are reflective of a good reading program. Some of these are that there is…

This publication is intended to do two things: reinforce reading skills essential to interpreting the exercises in the social studies, sciences, and mathematics sections of the test of General Educational Development (GED) and to provide students practice in interpreting passages written at a level of difficulty similar to the difficulty of the…

The criteria for excellence in reading presented in this paper are intended to be used by local school districts, and it is their prerogative to determine how to achieve the criteria based on local conditions, needs, capabilities, and desires. The contents include: "The Learner," which suggests that the learner should be guided to read…

This study looks at preservice teachers' attitudes toward children and teaching in an urban high-poverty community in relation to their involvement in two different literacy education experiences: one literacy course sequence addressed issues of cultural diversity with respect to this community, and the other did not explicitly address these…

From September 15, 1980 to June 30, 1981, William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) conducted a project to train high school equivalency program teachers with limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in their classes. The training addressed the special needs of the LEP students in mathematics, English writing, and English reading instruction in…

Writing to Read is an instructional system with a language experience approach to developing early writing and reading skills for primary children. Designed for a laboratory setting, the system consists of computerized phoneme instruction, 10 student workbooks, and language development activities that emphasize writing as a preliminary activity to…

In this case study illustrating teacher-centered curriculum development, teachers in the Walpole (Massachusetts) public school system were asked to select a reading program for use in grades K-8. Twenty-five teachers served on two teams over a two-year period. They used developmental learning kits at the kindergarten level, basal reading series…

This two-volume report on the progress of the Instructional Program in Reading/Language Arts (IPR/LA) in the Montgomery County, Maryland schools presents a brief overview of the study design, methodology, findings, recommendations, background data, and statistical analysis tables. Volume I of the report begins with an Executive Summary of the…