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PDF pending restorationHill, Walter R.; Bartin, Norma G. – 1971
One of the ERIC/CRIER Reading Review Series, this bibliography contains 145 citations and informative abstracts which sample representative sources concerning the growth and present status of secondary reading. The bibliography is divided into four parts, each beginning with a brief explanation and discussion of the included entries. Part 1…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Junior High Schools, Program Descriptions, Reading Programs
Download full textGuttinger, Hellen I.; Hines, Vynce A. – 1977
This volume reports on a study to investigate the effectiveness of a developmental, individualized reading laboratory program at the middle-school and high-school levels. The program was developed and evaluated over a four-year period, at the F.K. Yonge Laboratory School, located at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Promising results…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Individualized Reading, Learning Laboratories, Middle Schools
McGehee, Carolyn Miller – 1976
In order to facilitate the design of a secondary reading program which would be creative and relevant in its structure and content, this descriptive study randomly sampled students from a population of approximately 600 suburban Illinois high school freshmen. The needs of these students were investigated by means of several perceptual inventories,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Program Descriptions, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMorris, Darrell; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes a case study of a sixth-grade student experiencing profound difficulties in learning to read, and the instructional intervention that helped him make significant progress. Comments on the public school's responsibility to provide effective remedial instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Middle Schools
Bales, Jimmy Charles; Smith, Helen Armstrong – 1975
The authors of this thesis identified research on reading programs related to using vocational content for teaching reading to vocational students; developed a design for a vocational-related reading program which included needs assessment, goal and objectives, the vocational related reading program, and a plan for the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Males, Program Content
McDuffie County School District, Thomson, GA. – 1983
This compilation presents material related to the Reading English Rotation program, an individualized, diagnostic, prescriptive language arts program designed to meet the needs of secondary school students who score lowest in reading achievement. The compilation begins with a comparison of three years of evaluation data, noting that the average…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, High Risk Students, Individualized Instruction, Language Arts
Anderson, Valerie; Roit, Marsha – 1993
This report describes the evolution of an innovative research project in which inservice special education teachers engaged in collaborative strategy instruction with small groups of severely reading-delayed adolescents (ages 12-16). The report emphasizes how teachers' contributions resulted in a unique approach to reading strategy instruction.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
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
Olson, Patricia S. – 1985
This compilation presents material relating to the ReCaRe (Reading and Content-area Resource) program, a one-semester elective course for secondary school students of all ability levels designed to develop their reading comprehension, vocabulary, rate of reading, and study skills. The first part of the compilation is a 48-page booklet entitled…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Demonstration Programs, Individualized Instruction, Lesson Plans
Shick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1966
Focusing on new frontiers in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1965. Among the topics covered in the 26 papers are the following: reading in the Guatemalan environment, the use of instrumentation in reading, correlates of concentration, the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Mickelson, Norma; Davies, Anne – 1987
Focusing on a whole language program for the middle grades in Canada's Northwest Territories, this interview transcript consists of responses by Anne Davies, a teacher from Yellow Knife, in the Northwest Territories, and currently a doctoral student, to questions posed by Norma Mickelson, a professor at the University of Victoria in British…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries
Robinson, Dana Jones, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
The causes of reading failure are numerous and complex. If instruction provided by the school is ineffective or insufficient, even some otherwise capable learners will have difficulty learning to read. Improving literacy instruction through professional development is an ongoing process involving all of the members of a schoolwide literacy team in…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Reading Failure, Professional Development, Reading Achievement
