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Direct linkWackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Rodriguez, Megan I.; Bradfield, Tracy A.; Rodriguez, Michael C.; McConnell, Scott R. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Early comprehension is an important, but not well-understood, contribution to early literacy and language development. Specifically, research regarding the nature of skills representative of early comprehension, including how they contribute to later reading success, is needed to support best practices to adequately prepare students. This article…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Response to Intervention
Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Rodriguez, Megan I.; Bradfield, Tracy A.; Rodriguez, Michael C.; McConnell, Scott R. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2015
Early comprehension is an important, but not well-understood, contribution to early literacy and language development. Specifically, research regarding the nature of skills representative of early comprehension, including how they contribute to later reading success, is needed to support best practices to adequately prepare students. This article…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Response to Intervention
Carter, Carolyn J. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2011
Charter school administrators weathered start-up woes, among them challenging students with unmet needs, verbal assaults, dwindling student enrollment, and a first-year budget deficit exceeding $200,000 to implement a reading improvement strategy that holds promise for helping at-risk students read better, a point particularly underscored…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Charter Schools, Small Schools
Barr, Ada M. – 1994
A study investigated whether whole language principles had "seeped" into secondary language arts teaching in Cass County, Michigan by surveying teachers' attitudes. A total of 14 of the 15 language arts teachers in the four secondary schools in the county returned completed surveys. Results indicated that the language arts teachers (1)…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Arts, Reading Research, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedPottorff, Donald D.; Olthof, Kathleen – Reading Improvement, 1993
Examines censorship of children's books in 36 school systems in Michigan. Reveals 79 censorship attempts of which 22 were successful during a 5-year period. Finds that adequate school policies and procedures regarding both censorship and the selection of books to be placed in libraries and classrooms are still lacking in a number of school…
Descriptors: Censorship, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Material Selection
CLIFFORD, CLARE; WATTENBERG, WILLIAM W. – 1962
THIS EXPLORATORY STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO ANALYZE DATA TO DETERMINE IF THE ASSOCIATION REPORTED BY OTHER INVESTIGATORS LINKING LOW SELF-CONCEPTS TO READING DIFFICULTIES WAS CORRECT OR WAS CAUSED BY UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCES IN READING UNDERMINING SELF-CONCEPTS. A SAMPLE OF 185 KINDERGARTEN ENTRANTS WAS INTERVIEWED AND OBSERVED FOR RATINGS IN RELATION…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten Children, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedHiatt, Michael R.; Kilty, Ted K. – Reading Horizons, 1980
Describes characteristics of reading programs in two-year colleges in Michigan as reported by 22 institutions that responded to a questionnaire. (MKM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Descriptions, Questionnaires, Reading Programs
Gillum, Ronald M.; And Others – 1977
Reading achievement of students in second to sixth grade in three school districts participating in a performance-contracting program was tested, using the Stanford Achievement Test and the Metropolitan Achievement Test, at the beginning and the end of the school year. The performance contract for each of the districts included a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Performance Contracts
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
Lloyd, Bruce A. – 1985
To discover the opinions of high school teachers regarding the need for teaching reading skills, an amended Vaughan Scale was administered to 388 teachers in 15 high schools in Michigan. The questionnaire consisted of 15 questions to which teachers responded on a Likert-type scale. The results supported the following conclusions: (1) teaching…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Lazich, Gilbert Stevan – 1974
The purposes of this study were to determine and describe the effects of using the work-attack element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD) as an instructional management system for improving the reading skills achievements of pupils in K-3. The subjects for the study were 1,759 pupils in grades K-3. The dependent…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
DeBoer, June – 1991
An action research project studied the attitudes and achievement of low-achieving fifth-grade students after participating in a 1-year heterogeneously grouped, literature-based reading program. The project explored the changes in student attitudes towards reading, and changes in students' knowledge in comprehension and vocabulary development.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Low Achievement
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1993
In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment (TSA); for the first time in NAEP's history, voluntary state-by-state assessments were made. In 1992, the NAEP Program included an expanded TSA in fourth-grade reading. The 1992 reading assessment considered students' performance in situations that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, National Competency Tests
Ballator, Nada; Jerry, Laura – 1999
The 1998 NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) state level reading assessment measured fourth- and eighth-grade students' reading proficiency in situations that involved reading for three purposes: reading for literary experience, reading to gain information, and reading to perform a task (grade 8 only). This report describes the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, National Competency Tests
Bower, Douglas – 1983
A study examined whether students coming from low income families perform less well on achievement tests than do students in general. Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test scores of fourth grade students coming from low income, rural Michigan homes were compared to overall schoolwide and statewide average scores for the period…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4
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