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Hill, Lola Bailey; Hale, Mary Groenewoud – Reading Teacher, 1991
Responds to five questions which are frequently asked about the purpose and nature of Reading Recovery, a popular and successful program. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
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Tomlinson, Brian – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2000
Argues that extensive reading is the most profitable way of continuing to acquire a second language (L2) outside and after a language course. Offers a description of the proficient reading process and the typical L2 learner reading process and suggests a reading program that aims to help L2 learners become successful readers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Independent Reading, Models, Program Descriptions
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Fowles, Barbara R. – Urban Review, 1976
Concludes that television is a medium that embodies a code of its own, combining auditory and visual conventions, just as print a language is a conventional code. These codes enhance each other in some ways that assist the process of learning to read. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Television, Educational Media, Educational Television
County Superintendents' Association of California. – 1973
This framework provides the basic structure for child learning and for teaching strategies for reading development in all public schools in California. Within the framework are provisions for diversities of language and cultural background to meet the individual needs of students. Part one, "The Student and the Reading Process," is directed toward…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English (Second Language), Linguistic Competence, Program Descriptions
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Burns, Eila – British Journal of Special Education, 2006
Eila Burns undertook the enquiry that is the subject of this article while studying for her MEd degree at the University of Birmingham. She is now a lecturer in teacher education at Jyvaskyla University of Applied Sciences in Finland. The project she describes here aimed to assess the effectiveness of peer tutoring and the advantages of the…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Skills, Learning Problems, Action Research
Casteel, Carolyn P.; And Others – 1977
Developed in West Virginia as part of a statewide effort to improve reading achievement through a competency based staff development program, this inservice instructional packet on comprehension is one of five designed to present classroom teachers with the essential competencies and learner outcomes involved in developmental reading. The…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Casteel, Carolyn P.; And Others – 1977
Developed in West Virginia as part of a statewide effort to improve reading achievement through a competency based staff development program, this inservice instructional packet on work and study skills is one of five devised to present classroom teachers with the essential competencies and learner outcomes involved in developmental reading. The…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Casteel, Carolyn P.; And Others – 1977
Developed in West Virginia as part of a statewide effort to improve reading achievement through a competency based staff development program, this inservice instructional packet on reading readiness is one of five designed to present classroom teachers with the essential competencies and learner outcomes involved in developmental reading. The…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Casteel, Carolyn P.; And Others – 1977
Developed in West Virginia as part of a statewide effort to improve reading achievement through a competency based staff development program, this inservice instructional packet on word recognition is one of five designed to present classroom teachers with the essential competencies and learner outcomes involved in developmental reading. The…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Fromboluti, Carol Sue, Ed. – Early Childhood Update, 1998
This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter published during 1996-1998. This newsletter provides a periodic update on the activities of the Early Childhood Research Working Group (ECRWG), organized in 1995 by the U.S. Department of Education and other federal government departments and agencies to promote interagency cooperation and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Casteel, Carolyn P.; And Others – 1977
Developed in West Virginia as part of a statewide effort to improve reading achievement through a competency based staff development program, this inservice instructional packet on recreational reading and personal development is one of five devised to present classroom teachers with the essential competencies and learner outcomes involved in…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Individual Development
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970
This is the first of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics discussed in the 42 papers are the following: underlining, individualized reading instruction, reading improvement programs in industry…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading