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Tennessee Department of Education, 2017
The Read to be Ready campaign emerged from the startling reality of Tennessee's reading achievement data. Only one-third of Tennessee fourth graders scored proficient in the last administration of National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in 2015. Equally concerning, students who fell behind in the early years almost never caught up in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, At Risk Students, Reading Comprehension
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Wilson, LaVisa; Titus, Mary Ellen – Reading Horizons, 1978
Describes a program in which elementary school pupils regularly visit elderly residents of a nursing home to read aloud to them. (GT)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Interaction, Nursing Homes
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Walmsley, Sean A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Describes the construction of a criterion-referenced test designed to test the ability of beginning readers to pronounce CVC letter combinations. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Burrus, Dorothy; Lohmann, Idella – Instructor, 1972
Children improve little in writing as a result of prescribed exercises in language mechanics. Skills in the use of language mechanics can be acquired effectively when the application is made to personal experiences and authentic reasons for writing, that is, the language-experience approach. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Experimental Programs, Experimental Teaching, Language Experience Approach
Hoffman, James V.; Baker, Christopher – 1980
The purpose of this paper is to report progress on the development of an observation instrument useful in characterizing the communication between teacher and student during oral reading instruction. The paper is divided into five major sections: (1) an overview of oral reading instruction at primary levels, (2) a theoretical perspective for…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classification, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques