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Knight, Taneka L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
African American and Latino students attending Title I schools in the metropolitan Atlanta area were not reading on grade level. The majority of students are low performing readers and minimally met the reading comprehension requirements. The 2015 average 8th grade reading score for these students was 246 out of 500. This applied dissertation was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Minority Group Students, African American Students
Coley, Joan Develin – 1990
The biggest concern with whole language instruction lies in ignoring some of the obvious problems in implementation or denying that there could be any problems at all. Problems mentioned by Maryland reading supervisors involve: teacher competence; phonics/spelling/skills instruction; responses of whole language advocates when asked what direction…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Activities, Language Arts
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Pitts, Sandra K. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Describes the reading and writing laboratory program at the University of Albuquerque. (FL)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Laboratories
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Spiegel, Dixie Lee; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1985
Describes in detail a procedure that teaches childen to integrate two word identification strategies--use of contexts and phonics. Reports on a study showing the effectiveness of the strategy. (FL)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 2, Integrated Activities, Phonics
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Corwin, Sylvia; Mortensen, Erik – 1976
The Reading Improvement Through Art (RITA) program, an interdisciplinary approach to remedial reading that combines reading and visual arts activities, was evaluated in nine New York City high schools. A total of 240 students participating in the program were pre and posttested during the fall 1975 and spring 1976 semesters. The results of this…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Journal of Reading, 1983
Describes a New York City program in which reading and social studies teachers work together to improve students' language abilities while they learn the required course content. Credits an inservice program with paving the way for the cooperative effort. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Cooperation, Inservice Teacher Education, Integrated Activities
Monmouth County Vocational School District, Marlboro, NJ. – 1982
A project was conducted in the Monmouth County (New Jersey) Vocational School District to examine the combination of in-shop vocational education with reading and mathematics instruction for special needs students. Related mathematics and reading teachers worked with students in small groups and individualized settings in the school shop to teach…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mainstreaming
Wood, Karen D., Ed.; Dickinson, Thomas S., Ed. – 2000
This comprehensive handbook focuses on literacy issues in grades 4-9. It is a reference guide that covers everything from the role of the principal and the characteristics of the learners to teaching the gifted and motivating the reluctant learner. Chapters offer an array of examples of student work, classroom vignettes, sample lessons, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Class Activities, Gifted, Instructional Effectiveness
Ferris, Frank – 1983
The Content Area Learning/Reading Project at the Cosgrove Junior High School in Spencerport, New York, was initiated in the fall of 1979. The goals of the project were to foster effective instruction in all classrooms and to promote instruction based on sound principles and practices as indicated by research and by review of successful content…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Methods