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Milligan, Jerry – Teaching Pre K-8, 1993
Eleven shortcomings of remedial reading programs are delaying the program; analyzing word identification skills; teaching phonic skills systematically; avoiding having students read; using controlled-vocabulary reading materials; disregarding student background knowledge; encouraging readers to sound out unfamiliar words; insisting upon accuracy…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
YOES, DECK, JR. – 1967
SEVERAL TITLE 1 PROJECTS IN TEXAS ARE READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS FOR MEXICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN. EL PASO'S PROJECT SECOND CHANCE PROVIDES EACH CHILD WITH SPECIAL READING INSTRUCTION IN WELL-EQUIPPED READING CENTERS AND AFTER-SCHOOL STUDY CENTERS WITH TUTORIAL AIDES. A PROJECT ON READING RETARDATION, THE DEL RIO PROGRAM, AIMS FOR READING…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Corrective Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Migrant Children
Download full textAnderson, Lorena; And Others – 1969
Recommendations are made for building an effective corrective or remedial reading improvement program into the structure of the developmental reading program. An outline of suggestions concerning objectives and goals, personnel, physical facilities, pupil selection, materials, and instruction is given. Samples of interest inventories and…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Program Guides, Reading Difficulty, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedMorrison, Connie Strong – Reading Horizons, 1974
Describes a six-week experimental cross-age tutoring program involving seventh and eighth graders deficient in reading skills as tutors of kindergarten through sixth grade students also exhibiting deficiencies in reading skills. (TO)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education. – 1991
Most of the federal government's support of disadvantaged young children has come through Head Start and Chapter 1 programs. Chapter 1 has mainly been used for pull-out remedial reading and mathematics programs in the elementary grades. The National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE) is…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Federal Programs, Preschool Education
McCabe, Patrick P. – Elementary English, 1975
Having children write their own stories with accompanying photographs proved to be a successful way of changing feelings of apathy toward reading to enthusiasm. (JH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading
Collins, Erik – 1975
This is an evaluation report of a New York City school district educational project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program provided remedial reading instruction for 776 economically and educationally disadvantaged high school students at five sites in four high schools. The program was staffed by 17…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, High School Students
Plecki, Gerard D. – 1977
The implementation of a content reading program at Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois, is discussed in this document. Reading staff hired with Title VII funds offered assistance to all teachers in the high school by working with classroom teachers in their classes for 60 minutes of class time per week. Free reading time devoted to high-interest…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Pearson, Gaynor – Amer Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Facilities, Federal Aid
DAWSON, MILDRED A.
FORTY-FOUR REPRINTS CONCERNING HIGH SCHOOL READING PROGRAMS SELECTED FROM "THE READING TEACHER" AND THE "JOURNAL OF READING" AND THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION ARE PRESENTED. THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTION WERE CONSISTENCY WITH ACCEPTED CURRICULAR AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRINCIPLES, CURRENT APPROPRIATENESS, DUPLICATION, AND…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Developmental Reading, High Schools, Program Development
Schneider, Anita – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine what procedures were employed by the school districts in New Jersey to identify, diagnose, and service remedial readers. A random sample of 20 percent of the elementary schools in the state were sent a questionnaire to determine their reading practices for the academic year 1972-73. Responses to the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMarcetti, Alvin J. – Journal of Reading, 1978
Describes different approaches to teaching reading by the individualized method. (MKM)
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individualized Programs, Individualized Reading, Reading Programs
Shanahan, Cynthia – Learning Point Associates / North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), 2005
In this paper, I describe characteristics of programs developed for adolescents who are struggling with literacy. The paper references both a chart I developed to compare and contrast those characteristics and a review guide I created to help schools make principled decisions when choosing programs for use with their students. The chart and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy Education, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
Smith, Richard J. – 1970
The reading resource teacher program established in the Madison, Wisconsin, Public Schools is described. Volunteer classroom teachers were given 20 hours of special training in reading and one-half day a week released time to assist their principals in reading curriculum development. Such consideration as cost, teacher-ability differences, staff…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Reading Consultants, Reading Development, Reading Diagnosis
Smith, Harold T. – 1966
This report deals with preschool, kindergarten, and elementary grade efforts for disadvantaged children in Kalamazoo County, Michigan in 1966. The findings, based primarily on conferences with elementary school personnel, are presented under the headings of continuous growth concept, preventive and remedial programs, staff specialists and special…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Flexible Progression
