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Campbell, Ruby M.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1975
The purposes of this study were to custom make a reading readiness program for a group of kindergarten children and to compare their progress with that of a second group. A pretest was administered to all of the children and then each child was grouped according to his or her needs. Two classes were involved in the study, one labeled control and…
Descriptors: Classification, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Johns, Jerry; Biggs, Karen – 1993
Noting that adult literacy involves adults who are readers and who are nonreaders, and that it is necessary to deal not only with problems of adult illiteracy, but also to encourage literate adults to read for work and pleasure, this bibliography presents annotations of 32 conference papers and journal articles published between 1989 and 1992…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies
Smith, Marshall S. – 1975
An overview of the Essential Skills Program at the National Institute of Education is presented in this paper. The paper is divided into three parts. In outline form, the first part of the paper describes the history of the program since its formation in December 1973. Also included in the first part is a short discussion of a number of the major…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, History, Program Descriptions
Gibbs, Gordon L.; And Others – 1970
The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Summer Reading Program is a parent-administered program designed to help children maintain the reading skills that they acquired in kindergarten through participation in a communication skills program. The subjects of the experimental group were 389 kindergarten students in four California school districts.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
The intent of this evaluation report is to provide information obtained from a study of the Success in Reading and Writing Program pilot project initiated in the Washington, D. C. public schools in 1978-79. The first chapter of the report describes the Success in Reading and Writing Program, its goals and objectives, and the pilot project; states…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Reading Improvement

Pressley, Michael; And Others – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Describes a comprehension strategies instruction program called Students Achieving Independent Learning (SAIL). Relates the program to reader response and transactional theories of reading. Shows how the program works in one school system. Compares SAIL with basal series instruction programs. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Epistemology
Silfen, Roberta; Howes, Anthony C. – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1984
Describes a summer school computer-assisted reading program and reports on differences in student attitudes, time on task, and skill mastery resulting from either teacher-based instruction or a combination of computer-assisted and teacher-based instruction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation

Cloer, Carl Thomas, Jr. – 1977
Elementary teachers should focus attention on language activities that involve naturally the reciprocal relationships among listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Teachers need to value, use, and make useful the background and language of all students, through a Language Experience Approach (LEA) in which students dictate and write about…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Enrichment, Language Experience Approach
Fisher, Kay E., Ed.; Fisher, Joseph A., Ed. – 1988
Containing selections from the 1987 and 1988 annual meetings of the North Central Reading Association, this yearbook includes sections on research; reviews of research; professional issues; and program descriptions. Papers include: "The Effects of a Secondary Reading Methods Course on Undergraduate Students' Awareness of Reading Skills"…
Descriptors: Adults, College Programs, Higher Education, Listening Skills
Tuchowski, Barbara, Comp.; Lopardo, Genevieve, Ed. – 1982
In order to substantiate the need for college level developmental reading programs, this paper reviews research conducted in the area from 1971 to 1981. The paper provides bibliographic information for 96 entries drawn from a search of ERIC, Dissertation Abstracts International, the William S. Gray Research Collection in Reading, and journals in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Content
Diem, Richard A. – 1980
This paper describes a three-year staff development program in reading and social studies in San Antonio, Texas. The data from a reading test administered to a sample of high school students indicated inferior reading skill development and supported the teachers' contentions that their students could not master social studies material because they…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Research, Inservice Education
Putnam, Lynne – 1982
The second volume of this final report of a large study which detailed the day-to-day working of, and student response to, two philosophically different approaches to reading readiness as they were used in six Philadelphia kindergartens reports on the "traditional" approach. The background section distinguishes the traditional approach by its use…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Observation Techniques, Conventional Instruction, Kindergarten
Turner, W. E.; Bare, Janet – 1972
The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Primary Education
Young, Savannah Miller – 1979
This guide provides a description of a mastery learning reading program based on a language approach to teaching reading. All suggested activities stress the use of skills to obtain meaning from reading as the main goal of instruction. Sections include a discussion of the elements of this mastery learning instructional program that notes the need…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1967
Focusing on expanding fields in junior college and adult reading programs, the 35 articles in this volume were drawn from the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1966. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: an interdisciplinary approach to the identification and remediation of severe reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Educational Technology
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