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Download full textBilton, Caroline; Duff, Aoife – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
This report offers seven practical, evidence-based recommendations that are relevant to all pupils, and particularly to those struggling with their literacy. To develop the recommendations, we reviewed the best available international research and consulted experts to arrive at key principles for effective literacy teaching. This second edition of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Bilton, Caroline; Tillotson, Sarah – Education Endowment Foundation, 2020
This report is part of a series of four guidance reports that the EEF has produced on the theme of language and literacy. It focuses on pupils between the ages of 5 and 7 in Key Stage 1. However, it may also be applicable to older pupils who have fallen behind their peers, or younger pupils who are making rapid progress. Separate reports cover…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Quigley, Alex; Coleman, Robbie – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
This guidance report aims to help secondary schools improve literacy in all subject areas. It provides seven recommendations related to reading, writing, talk, vocabulary development and supporting struggling students. Throughout the report, recommendations emphasise the importance of disciplinary literacy. Disciplinary literacy is an approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
Higgins, Steve; Martell, Thomas; Waugh, David; Henderson, Peter; Sharples, Jonathan – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This report offers seven practical evidence-based recommendations--that are relevant to all pupils, but particularly to those struggling with their literacy. To develop the recommendations we reviewed the best available international research and consulted experts to arrive at key principles for effective literacy teaching. This report is part of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills
Direct linkCunningham, Anne E.; Zibulsky, Jamie – Oxford University Press, 2014
Authored by two passionate psychologists and educators, "Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers" is a how-to guide rich with stories, lessons, activities, and ideas aimed at supporting reading development and addressing the broad range of interpersonal, social, emotional, and motivational skills that can be…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Strategies, Oral Language
Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Schatschneider, Chris – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2015
The FAIR-FS consists of computer-adaptive reading comprehension and oral language screening tasks that provide measures to track growth over time, as well as a Probability of Literacy Success (PLS) linked to grade-level performance (i.e., the 40th percentile) on the reading comprehension subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) in the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Screening Tests, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory NWREL, 2005
This two-day institute examines essential concepts about effective teaching strategies in reading, including the five basic components of reading recommended by the National Reading Panel, to enable paraeducators to support teachers in the instruction of reading. The purpose of Module III is to develop participants' understandings of the key…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1974
This comprehension model defines and describes nine categories of comprehension, including word meanings, location/recall, translation, interpretation, prediction, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Each of the categories includes the following sections: highlights, containing a definition and questions; instructional objectives for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comprehension, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Reading Education. – 1978
This booklet provides teachers with models for interactive reading activities that reflect an awareness of comprehension as a complex mental and linguistic process rather than as a hierarchy of mechanically applied subskills. The instructional strategies represent a combination of insights presented in recent research with those gained through…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1975
The purposes of this booklet are to acquaint physical education teachers with the meanings of some terms used in reading that are related to physical education, to acquaint physical education teachers with reading skills that can be taught or reinforced through physical education activities, to provide a source or model of such activities, and to…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. Div. of Reading Effectiveness. – 1974
Specific reading program objectives are included in this guide in the areas of prereading; word recognition; comprehension; study skills; and attitudes, interests, and values. Methods of determining reading ability by diagnosis and methods for estimating reading potential are discussed. Factors involved in early reading experiences which are…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Miccinati, Jeannette Louise – 1976
This paper on readability begins with a brief discussion of comprehension, including a definition, and then lists factors that influence comprehension, such as knowledge of vocabulary, long passages that are ambiguous, digressions, and unnecessary restatements. The paper then explores readability and presents a graph for estimating readability and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Readability
Lake Washington School District 414, Kirkland, WA. – 1971
This guide reflects the definition of reading as a complex intellectual act involving a variety of behaviors to decode and comprehend printed symbols and is intended to help the teacher be aware of all the skills within each dimension of the reading act. The reading skills are described in terms of learner behavior and a criterion reference is…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Decoding (Reading), Reading, Reading Comprehension
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 2002
This informational 14-minute videotape describes the national initiative for "Reading First," the method of teaching reading according to scientifically based research findings. In the videotape, the narration concentrates on the opportunities Reading First offers for every child to learn how to read proficiently by the end of the third…
Descriptors: Phonics, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Schain, Robert L., Ed.; And Others – 1976
This handbook includes materials developed by faculty members of George W. Wingate High School in a program to improve reading skills in subject area classes. These materials include lesson plans and various kinds of worksheets. Although the lessons involve many content areas, they are divided into these reading skill subject areas; vocabulary…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
