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Ginsburg, Victoria Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This descriptive qualitative case study explored the changing role of the reading specialist through various perceptions of professionals in the Neon Shadow School District. The purpose of the study was to explore what, how, and why the duties and responsibilities of the reading specialist have changed since first employed as an…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Specialists, Role Perception, Case Studies
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O'Connor, Gerard; And Others – Educational Psychology, 1987
Discusses practice reading and the pause, prompt, and praise remedial reading procedures used with low-progress readers of primary school age. Results are discussed in terms of the interactive social contexts provided by the two procedures and of the opportunities for reciprocal gains in skill between reader and tutors. (Author/BSR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Improvement, Reading Processes
Strang, Ruth – 1968
This monograph includes an extensive review and evaluation of the research literature and offers teachers and clinicians background for understanding reading diagnosis, the correlates and causes of reading disabilities, diagnostic techniques, and remediation. The following topics are discussed: (1) the nature and levels of diagnosis, (2) the…
Descriptors: Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties, Reading Difficulty, Reading Improvement
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Allington, Richard L.; Broikou, Kathleen A. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Suggests that the lack of coherence between remedial programs and regular classrooms impedes the progress of students with reading difficulties. Provides an outline for an instructional program in which classroom and specialist teachers collaborate to provide the learner with coherent and balanced instruction. (ARH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties
REID, HALE C.; AND OTHERS – 1966
COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT-2698 WAS EXTENDED TO THE SECOND-GRADE LEVEL IN ORDER TO DEVELOP AND MEASURE THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL OR SMALL-GROUP INSTRUCTION FOR LOW-SCORING SECOND GRADERS IN READING, OF LESSONS ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS OF THE LOW GROUP, AND OF INSERVICE TRAINING OF TEACHERS. SECOND GRADERS WHO RECEIVED TOTAL METROPOLITAN ACHIEVEMENT…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 2, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Programs
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Briscoe, Cecil D. – Clearing House, 1969
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, High School Students, Programed Instructional Materials, Reading Improvement
Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – 1987
To determine the effect of training in reciprocal teaching on collaborative learning, a study of six middle school remedial reading classes was undertaken. Reciprocal teaching is a method in which the teacher participates both as a leader and as respondent. Before the experiment began, the teachers were trained for a day in reciprocal teaching and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Teaching, Inservice Teacher Education, Middle Schools
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: remedial reading teacher attitudes, how parent training in behavior modification and transactional analysis affects remedial reading instruction, the effect of role change on the reading…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education