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Carter, Athelene P. – 1980
Project IRIS (Improving Reading Instruction School-Wide) is one school district's effort to improve reading instruction. The project's first three years have produced median reading gains of one year or more per student per year. Although the most important aspect of Project IRIS is school-wide commitment to improving reading instruction, other…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Elementary Education, Guidelines, Program Content
Lounsbury, John H. – 1988
A comparative investigation of the place of the sixth grade in public education used a shadow study technique to address three questions: (1) What is a sixth grader's day in school like? (2) In what ways do programs provided for sixth graders differ, depending on where the grade is located in the school system? (3) How does what is known of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Departments, Developmental Programs, Educational Needs
Vida, Louisa Kramer – 1980
Using Jean Piaget's theory of thinking as a structuring mechanism, this paper presents a theoretical framework for the development of remedial, corrective, and developmental reading programs geared toward teaching reading comprehension. The four stages of intellectual development that Piaget has proposed (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation, Corrective Reading