Effective reading interventions for students struggling in the early grades have been a focus of considerable research over the past 20 years (Foorman, Francis, Fletcher, Schatschneider, & Mehta, 1998; Foorman & Torgesen, 2001; Geva & Siegel, 2000; Klingner & Vaughn, 1996). Comparable research targeting older struggling students has only recently…

Recent reading research has shown teachers how to help students comprehend and has identified strategies that good comprehenders use. At the same time, however, researchers report that few if any of these techniques are used in classrooms. Reading teachers and content area teachers alike need to be able to design lessons that help students…

The purpose of this study was to develop and pilot modular materials about the reading instructional process to be used in the inservice training of principals. The first step in designing modules for elementary principals involved identifying three major categories of skills Three modules were designed under the headings of the major categories…

The purposes of this study were (1) to design four resource modules--Diagnostic Evaluation of Reading Progress; Developing Comprehension: Analysis of Meaning; Developing Comprehension: Synthesis and Generalization; Developing Comprehension: Information Acquisition--and (2) to determine whether an instructional module developed from one of these…

The purposes of this study were (1) to develop and evaluate resource modules in the areas of treating reading difficulties and individualizing instruction to be used in a competency based teacher education program in reading and (2) to determine whether an instructional portion of the reading difficulties module could effectively be implemented in…

Topics selected for the development in the modules were validated by master teachers, module development procedures were outlined, field test purposes and samples were described, field testing was performed, and results of objectives and subjective evaluations of the field testing were presented. The six modules developed specific teacher…