The purpose of the current research is to determine the effect of changing the English Language Art curriculum on the reading growth of fourth-grade students who attended a public school district located in a suburban community in the Northeastern part of the United States. This ex-post facto study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the…

Research results show that there are no clear grounds for assuming that students today cannot read as well as they did 25 years ago. (DS)

Dyslexia is too often a general category for an assortment of reading disabilities. Reading ability might be considered as a continuum ranging from lexia to dyslexia with no implication regarding the cause of the disability. Instead of labeling the child with a reading problem a failure, present teaching techniques should be evaluated on the basis…

This paper reports on a Humboldt County School District project aimed at identifying solutions to pupils' reading deficiencies. The contents include: "Project Procedure Summary," which lists eight program objectives, procedures for implementation of the objectives, and evaluation of the objectives; "Evaluation Summary," which…

Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, school leaders in Waterloo faced a gloomy horizon. Economic hardships, including declines in property values and rising unemployment, resulted in decreasing school enrollment and limited financial resources. By 1995, the district had accumulated several million dollars of debt. From 1995 to 2005, the student…

Appropriate for teachers of any grade who want to teach their students how to read and learn from text, this book explains how to develop and use strategies that will enable all students to read and learn in the content areas without stigmatizing them. The book is divided into four parts. The first part explains the changing role of the school and…