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Download full textSherman, Lee, Ed. – Northwest Education, 1998
This issue presents eight essays all on the theme of how young children can become strong and successful lifelong readers. "Seeking Common Ground" (Lee Sherman) reviews the debate over how best to teach young children to read. "In the Beginning" (Catherine Paglin) suggests that by reading aloud to young children and filling their world with print,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Informal Reading Inventories
Capros, Lulia, Comp. – 1998
This manual is designed for improving understanding of colloquial Romanian in continued language learning beyond the beginning level. The first part of the manual includes four popular Moldovan fairy-tales with illustrations to help understand what is implied in the text. The second section includes local expressions, some of them with…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Patton, Susannah, Ed.; Holmes, Madelyn, Ed. – 1998
This book presents essays that offer a guide to understanding the elements necessary to bring good reading instruction to all children. It includes a list of follow-up actions accompanying each essay to assist administrators, teachers, and parents in applying this knowledge to their own instructional objectives. Essays in the book are: (1)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies
Garcia, Georgia Earnest – 1992
The first part of this report reviews the different types of formal assessment measures that have been used to evaluate the language and literacy performance of second-language learners of English in the United States, including language proficiency tests, reading readiness tests, standardized reading tests, basal reading tests, and statewide…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN. – 1991
This ERIC/RCS Special Collection contains 10 or more Digests (brief syntheses of the research on a specific topic in contemporary education) and FAST Bibs (Focused Access to Selected Topics--annotated bibliographies with selected entries from the ERIC database), providing up-to-date information in an accessible format. The collection focuses on…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Involvement, High Risk Students
Shohet, Linda – Literacy Across the Curriculum, 1990
This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter entitled "Literacy Across the Curriculum" issued during 1990. The newsletter covers articles on classroom and other topical issues, resources, and conferences and announcements related to language for learning. The following topics are discussed in volume 6: analyzing…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Dialects, Females, Foreign Countries
Potter, Rosemary Lee – 1992
This paper describes 2 years of international telecommunications experiences between seventh grade reading classes in Florida and England. The report is presented in five sections: (1) Telecommunications and Reading Instruction--telecommunications and how it can motive students, develop their confidence, and empower them, and how…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Foreign Countries
Baker, Esther J. – 1992
Findings from a study that sought to determine the degree to which teachers used an inservice program for the implementation of a primary language and literacy program are presented in this paper. To measure teachers' level of use of the whole language philosophy of learning, the Language and Literacy Questionnaire was administered to 112 primary…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Education, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
Ericson, Britta, Ed. – 1991
This book presents articles that deal with literacy, both in a scientific, as well as in a practical and experiential way. Papers in the book are: "Opening Address" (Birgitta Ulvhammar); "Illiteracy: A Global Problem" (Eve Malmquist); "Swedish Cooperation with Developing Countries in the Field of Literacy" (Agneta…
Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Literature, Developing Nations, Dyslexia
Kanel, Sylvia; Anthony, Marlene – 1994
Professors in a Communication Arts methods course for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers sought to move the content of the language arts curriculum from a direct instruction to a whole language model. A transformation came about as one professor realized that her efforts to enthusiastically convey the importance of authentic…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Nickles, Ann L.; And Others – 1988
This packet contains eight workbooks of lessons covering daily living skills for adult basic education or adult literacy education students. The books contain 160 short lessons organized in 13 units. The units cover the following topics: filling out forms; numbers, days, months; money and banking; monthly bills; post office; alphabetical order;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Course Content
Day, Janet D. – 1993
A study described the amount of usage and structure of cross-age reading tutoring programs. A survey was sent to 68 schools in northwest Ohio to determine percentage and ranges of usage. Results indicated that less than 22% of the 42 elementary schools that responded to the survey used a cross-age tutoring program. Of the programs in place, less…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
Ramunda, Jeanne M. – 1994
A study was designed to examine the effectiveness of repeated reading in fluency and comprehension. A cross-age reading program was used to give students a purpose for rereading material. The children in a second-grade classroom in a private school in suburban New Jersey were randomly assigned to two sample groups. The experimental group read to a…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Peer Teaching
Frerichs, Linda C. – 1993
An exploratory study investigated the relationship between perceptions and practices in reading and language arts, and examined whether teachers were using practices to develop students' literacy skills suggested in work by Marie Clay. Subjects, 16 out of a possible 22 kindergarten teachers in one southern school district, responded to a 138-item…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Language Arts, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Brown, Ronald L. – 1992
A discussion of reading instruction in college English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes presents an overview of reading instruction theory, looks at the role of reading strategies and metacognitive awareness in reading, describes the SQ3R study skills method of instruction, and examines how the method can be used for developing independent…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
