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Green, Clarence – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This paper contributes to a research program within extensive reading (ER) and "Reading in a Foreign Language" using corpora to simulate ER input to develop vocabulary through incidental learning to 9,000 words. This helps researchers/teachers evaluate ER. If corpora indicate no 'pathway' from smaller to larger vocabulary sizes through…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary Development, Reading Materials, Teaching Methods
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Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
Texts are a central part of reading. Yet our understandings of appropriate text features and distributions of text diets at different points in students' reading development are limited. The thesis of the essay is that, if the trajectory of struggling readers is to change, attention is needed to the features of texts and students' text diets,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Equal Education, Morphology (Languages), Phonology
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Waring, Rob; McLean, Stuart – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
The Extensive Reading Foundation's bibliography now boasts over 530 articles with "Extensive Reading" in the title. About 35% of this rich and diverse body of papers were published in the past decade. A meta-review of this literature shows it is quite fragmented as evidenced by considerable variability in the conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Research, Guidelines, Teaching Methods
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Dewitz, Peter; Jones, Jennifer – Reading Teacher, 2013
When schools and teachers adopt core reading programs they can use them with fidelity or make intelligent decisions about the texts, lessons and components they select to use. The evidence suggests that these programs are not research-based documents, but rather compromises between what the research suggests about effective reading instruction and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Research, Fidelity
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Duggins, James – High School Journal, 1975
Author proposed to build a case for humanistic reading programs, for his contention was that reading programs must focus upon the individual and the content of reading materials must reflect the life space of the learner. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Humanism, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Reading Programs
Graham, Harold V. – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Reading Interests, Reading Materials, Reading Programs
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Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Discusses what studies of i.t.a. throughout the past eleven years have revealed for teachers and researchers in the field of reading. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
BOND, GUY L.; DYKSTRA, ROBERT – 1967
DATA RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS WERE DRAWN FROM 27 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES COMPRISING THE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN FIRST-GRADE READING INSTRUCTION--(1) TO WHAT EXTENT ARE VARIOUS PUPIL, TEACHER, CLASS, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO ACHIEVEMENT IN FIRST-GRADE READING AND SPELLING, (2) WHICH APPROACH TO INITIAL…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Sartain, Harry W. – 1970
At the present time more than 600 publications concerned with individualized reading are available. The 84 items listed in this bibliography were selected to help the reader obtain varied points of view without reading 600 articles. The selected studies are arranged in four categories to include (1) carefully considered arguments for and against…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Individualized Reading, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction
Sartain, Harry W., Comp. – 1970
At the present time more than 600 publications concerned with individualized reading are available. The 84 items listed in this bibliography were selected to help the reader obtain varied points of view without reading 600 articles. The selected studies are arranged in four categories to include (1) carefully considered arguments for and against…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Individualized Reading, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction
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Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Kindergarten, Perceptual Handicaps, Questionnaires
Kachuck, Beatrice Levy – 1975
Syntax in four published series of elementary school readers was analyzed to discover patterns of complexity increasing from first to sixth grade, to identify structures accounting for differences across the grades, and to compare the frequency of specific structures among the series. Analyses of 16 surface structures representing complexities…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Reading Materials
Smith, Lewis B.; Morgan, Glen D. – Elementary English, 1975
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Arts, Magnetic Tape Cassettes, Primary Education
CAMPBELL, PAUL B.; AND OTHERS – 1967
DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR 1965-66, GROUPS OF FIRST-GRADE PUPILS IN THE LIVONIA SCHOOL SYSTEM, MICHIGAN, WERE PROVIDED WITH READING INSTRUCTION MATERIALS FROM EIGHT PUBLISHERS REPRESENTING EIGHT APPROACHES AS PART ONE OF A 2-YEAR STUDY. THE MATERIALS WERE THE LIPPINCOTT BASIC READING SERIES, THE SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES BASIC READING SERIES, THE…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Cheuvront, Robert F.; Hennes, James D. – 1975
This Colorado Department of Education final report describes the reading program efforts aimed at increasing the reading skills of students who were behind in reading achievement. "Summary and Recommendations" summarizes the results for the 1972-73 program. "Introduction" discusses the purpose and the plan, appropriation of…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Development, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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