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Simple, Affordable, and Effective Strategies for Prompting Reading Behavior.
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Ernsbarger, Sara C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2002
Notes many students with disabilities benefit from prompts for reading in general education classrooms. Considers how visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile prompts implemented by the teacher, by the student with minimal teacher assistance, or by the student independently can facilitate more effective reading. Describes strategies for using…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Habits
Teaching for Problem Solving in Reading.
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Pinnell, Gay Su – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Examines teacher-child interactions in a Reading Recovery program. Finds that teachers with higher student outcomes provided a consistent balance between attention to text-level strategies and letter- or word-level strategies; helped students analyze words using larger chunks of information; and were more specific, more attentive to…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Primary Education, Problem Solving, Reading Research
The Effect of Multiple Readings on the Behaviors of Children and Teachers in an Early Intervention Program.
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Askew, Billie J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Examines the behaviors of children and their teachers across repeated readings of the same text across several Reading Recovery lessons. Finds increased monitoring, error detection, self-correction, and fluency. Finds that teacher interventions decreased and changed in substantive ways. (RS)
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Primary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Processes
Transactional Instruction of Comprehension Strategies: The Montgomery County, Maryland, SAIL Program.
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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