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Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the reading attitude of struggling elementary students at risk for reading failure. Twenty-nine first-grade and 32 second-grade struggling readers were given the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990). First-grade struggling readers favored more academic reading activities while second-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
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Fawcett, Angela J.; Nicolson, Roderick I.; Moss, Helen; Nicolson, Margaret K.; Reason, Rea – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 2001
Presents a study evaluating the effect of reading intervention with children at risk of reading failure. Explains the program spanned 10 weeks and emphasized word building and phonics skills. States there is a need for continual support as opposed to a short intervention. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Schmidt, George N. – Learning, 1982
A city-wide elementary school reading program that emphasizes mastery learning and continuous progress in Chicago, Continuous Progress--Mastery Learning, is blamed for the declining reading test scores of high school students there. The program's origins and evolution are described along with a new program, Chicago Mastery Learning Reading, which…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education