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Peer reviewedTalley, Susan; Lancy, David F.; Lee, Thomas R. – Reading Horizons, 1997
Tests use of CD-ROM storybook programs' effects on preschool children's emergent literacy--73 Head Start four-year-olds, divided into experimental, control, and well-read-to control groups used CD-ROM programs for eight weeks. Indicates CD-ROM storybook programs may have a significant effect on emergent reading skills of children not well-read-to…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Emergent Literacy, Optical Data Disks, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedFox, Barbara J.; Wright, Maripat – Reading Teacher, 1997
Describes a cross-age reading program called Storymates, which connected school and home literacy experiences of 9-, 10-, and 11-year olds through storybook reading to younger siblings, relatives, and neighborhood friends. Discusses exploring story structure in the classroom; reading storybooks in school and at home; how retellings improved; and…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Aloud to Others
NFO Research, Inc. – 1990
A study was conducted to determine the reading habits and attitudes of parents and their children and to determine parents' familiarity with Reading Rainbow (a television program intended to stimulate young children's interest in reading for pleasure) and their attitudes toward the program. A total of 707 questionnaires were completed by parents…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Parent Attitudes
Davis, Shirley – 1987
A study examined three different basal reading series (MacMillan, Harcourt-Brace, and Scott Foresman) at four different levels for the types of stories found in the readers, as well as for acts of reading portrayed in the stories. Subjects, 12 second grade students at a New Jersey elementary school, completed a teacher-constructed inventory on the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Grade 2, Primary Education
Download full textMendenhall, Susie B. – 1976
A personalized reading program for children in the elementary grades is described. The program consists of three interrelated parts: self-selection and sharing of books, skill development according to individual needs, and individual teacher-pupil discussion and evaluation conferences. Sustained silent reading, oral reading once a week to the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individualized Reading, Peer Acceptance
Foley, Christy L. – 1987
To highlight the versatility of the Starter Approach to reading, a one-on-one beginning reading strategy for use with a nonreader of any age, this document describes the approach in detail and then briefly describes four longitudinal studies that used it. The introduction notes that the procedure combines successful components of popular,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
