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Peer reviewedKoenke, Karl – Reading Teacher, 1986
Examines the progress libraries have made in establishing literacy programs and looks at the efforts of several specific library systems. (FL)
Descriptors: Library Role, Library Services, Literacy, Program Content
Peer reviewedBoomer, Garth – Journal of Reading, 1983
Offers a view of literacy within the Australian context and traces the progress of two language and curriculum development projects. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Literacy
Preston, Teresa K. – Teaching Music, 2003
Focuses on the issue of whether music teachers should be improving student reading skills. Describes a program called Opening Minds to the Arts (OMA) that is used in the Unified School District in Tucson (Arizona) to develop student literacy. Discusses the benefits and outcomes of OMA. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Literacy, Music Education
Download full textMoore, Allen B. – 1980
The third of eight related documents, this booklet is part of a series of papers presented at the 1978 National Right to Read Conference examining issues and problems in literacy. In its examination of the relationship between literacy and career development, the booklet first defines the components of basic literacy and of career development and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Development, Integrated Activities, Job Skills
Peer reviewedCrowell, Doris C.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1986
Offers five classroom activities, some teacher centered and some child centered, that develop reading and writing in five-year-old children. (FL)
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Learning Strategies
Evaluation of a Focused Literacy Teaching Programme in Reception and Year 1 Classes: Child Outcomes.
Peer reviewedHurry, Jane; Sylva, Kathy; Riley, Jeni – British Educational Research Journal, 1999
Examines whether children taught in literacy program classrooms make greater progress in reading during their first two years of formal schooling than children in classrooms not involved in the literacy program. Finds that children in the literacy program classrooms made more reading progress in both the Reception year and Year 1. (CMK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Literacy
Fleming, Lily; And Others – 1980
The fourth of eight related documents, this booklet is part of a series of papers presented at the 1978 National Right to Read Conference examining issues and problems in literacy. In an examination of the role of private business in efforts to increase literacy, each of the three papers in this booklet discusses a specific program sponsored and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Business, Business Responsibility
Kemp, Max – Australian Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a program designed to train parents to help in their children's literacy development. Examines the typical parent enrolled in the program and explains how teachers can use program information to better meet the needs of students with literacy deficiencies. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Literacy, Parent Participation
International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario). – 1979
Intended for administrators and students of literacy and education who are not necessarily professional scholars or researchers, this book interprets a large amount of literature about literacy. The first section of the book provides information about the following: factors in the achievement of literacy; planning a literacy program; organization…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Educational Research
