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Direct linkLouden, Perry F., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Middle school is often the last place where students are taught basic reading skills such as phonology, morphology, fluency, and comprehension before they move on to high school where reading is predominately focused on understanding, analysis, application and evaluation of content area material. In addition, middle school students are exposed to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Morphology (Languages), Word Study Skills
Amendum, Steve; Amendum, Emily; Almond, Pamela – Reading Teacher, 2013
This article describes a year-long reading intervention with a first-grade English-learner who began the year as a non-reader. Systematic instruction from a literacy specialist and her classroom teacher included familiar re-reading, word study, and teacher-guided reading with carefully matched texts, within the context of English language and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.; Martella, Ronald C.; Modderman, Sheri L.; Petersen, Holly; Pan, Spencer – Education and Treatment of Children, 2013
This paper reviews best practices for effective adolescent literacy programs. A focus is placed on five areas of literacy instruction including word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation. Each of these areas is discussed as well as how each area is relevant to reading and understanding narrative and content-area text at high…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Best Practices, Literacy Education
Blewitt, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed-methods study explored the characteristics of a reading program at a South Central Los Angeles charter school, as well as explored the relationship between motivational and affective factors on the Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) instrument and students' reading lexile scores. Data were collected through student questionnaire…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Science Education, Science Instruction
Download full textVaden-Kiernan, Michael; Caverly, Sarah; Bell, Nance; Sullivan, Kate; Fong, Carlton; Atwood, Erin; Borman, Geoffrey; Park, So Jung; Jones, Debra Hughes – SEDL, 2012
The Louisiana Striving Readers evaluation assessed the implementation and effectiveness of the Voyager "Passport Reading Journeys" (PRJ), a widely used supplemental literacy intervention for struggling adolescent readers that reflects the research-based practices recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000) and other more recent…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Grade 6
PDF pending restorationPierce, Judy C., Ed. – 1985
Intended for classroom teachers, this guide contains outcomes and objectives for grades K-12 that are intended to be used for improving the teaching and learning of reading skills. The prefatory section of the document briefly presents the goals of the program, suggestions for implementation, and a definition of terms. A reading concepts chart is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Library Skills, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedMcKellips, Karen – Reading Teacher, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Skills
Kerstiens, Gene, Ed. – 1972
The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Western College Reading Association. Some of the titles of the papers are: "Reading/Study Skills Programs in Washington's Community Colleges: A Survey"; "The Pygmalion Plan"; "The Intermix Technique for Developing Study Skills"; "Reinforced Study"; "The Relationship of…
Descriptors: College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPauk, Walter – Reading Improvement, 1973
Advocates the teaching of study skills in place of speed reading in college reading programs. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
MAXWELL, MARTHA J.; ROSS, MAMIE H.
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND A SATELLITE PROGRAM OF THE READING AND STUDY SKILLS LABORATORY WAS CONDUCTED AT THE DELTA PHI EPSILON SORORITY HOUSE. AT THE SORORITY'S REQUEST, SPECIAL EQUIPMENT INCLUDING A CONTROLLED READER, A TACHISTOSCOPE, A TAPE RECORDER WITH TAPES ON ALL PHASES OF THE READING PROGRAM, AND THE POWER AND RATE BUILDERS UNIT OF THE…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Reading Centers, Reading Instruction
Kohn, Jackie – Reading Newsreport, 1973
Describes a reading program that is a combination of the best in existing reading series and includes a tailor-made word attack skills segment. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1972
Formal reading instruction occurs not only in elementary school reading classes but also in science and social studies classes, and continues into the junior and senior high school where content-related reading , study skills, and vocabulary are taught by subject. The 21 reading projects summarized in this report emphasize reading in the content…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Reading Instruction
Flippo, Rona F., Ed.; Caverly, David C., Ed. – 1991
This book provides a review of the theoretical, empirical, and instructional issues in the field of college reading and study strategies through a careful and systematic examination of the relevant literature. The articles and their authors are, as follows: (1) "Vocabulary Acquisition and the College Student" (Michele L. Simpson and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Gordon, William M. – 1982
Intended for reading instructors of kindergarten through grade 8 students, this book offers a comprehensive view of the skills needed for a student to become an effective, lifetime reader. Instead of presenting a method for teaching reading, it presents the skills common to most reading programs. Chapters in the first section discuss the history…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Tompkins, Stephen R. – 1979
A speed reading/scholarship skills course was offered to college-bound students in the Dallas, Texas, school system in 1977-78. Approximately 1,700 students took the 60-day elective course in 20 different high schools. As measured by the Nelson-Denny Standardized Reading Test and compared to college freshman norms, students registered the…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Gifted, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
