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Gaskins, Robert W.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1995
Describes a five-year research and development project that led to the creation of a decoding program for poor readers in grades one through eight. Uses action research as a means of developing the program and modifying the research. Finds that the word identification program enabled students to become better decoders and allowed them to make…
Descriptors: Action Research, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Junior High Schools

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
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
Taunton Public Schools, MA. – 1987
This curriculum guide offers suggestions for reading improvement for grades K-12. Following an introduction and statement of philosophy, a section on the theoretical and research basis of the program outlines recommendations from the National Academy of Education's Commission on Education and Public Policy's "Becoming a Nation of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Library Skills, Parent Participation