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Felsenthal, Helen; Kirsch, Irwin – 1978
To determine if there was variability in scheduled and engaged time in reading among classrooms and in management style among teachers and to see if these factors accounted for differences on a standardized reading achievement measure, a study was conducted involving 13 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade reading classrooms. Pretest and posttest data…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Huffman, Gail M.; Edwards, Barbara – 1983
Intended to help teachers assess the effectiveness of their reading program, this paper suggests how teachers can emphasize comprehension in reading, what behaviors students demonstrate related to getting and creating meaning when reading, and how the classroom environment can promote reading for meaning. After describing effective teacher and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Program Effectiveness
Hatch, J. Amos; Bondy, Elizabeth – 1983
Two combined second and third grade classrooms were observed throughout the five weeks of a summer school program to determine what "reading instruction" was in the contextual reality of classroom life. Observers viewed approximately 20 hours of reading instruction per week. In addition, they interviewed the classroom teachers informally as the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relationship between selected teacher personality traits and the teaching behaviors of remedial reading teachers; (2) reading program problems of beginning…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Decision Making, Doctoral Dissertations