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Download full textPoissant, Helene – 1994
A study examined adult low-literate readers' knowledge of their cognitive skills. By better knowing this clientele from both the cognitive and metacognitive angles, several objectives could be met, including remedying a lack of knowledge in their assessment, and building a valid curriculum content closer to their needs. Many studies suggest that a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries
Brunner, Michael S. – 1993
A survey was undertaken to provide a profile of current reading programs in juvenile correctional facilities. Data were gathered to determine whether "illiterates" exist in the juvenile correctional facilities; if oral comprehension is better than reading comprehension; what approaches and strategies are used for teaching word…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Juvenile Justice, National Surveys, Phonics
Almasi, Janice F.; Gambrell, Linda B. – 1994
A study described the characteristics of sociocognitive conflicts and the discourse associated with such conflicts, and determined how the cognitive processes exercised during discussion were internalized. Participants were 97 fourth-grade students and 6 elementary classroom teachers. Peer-led and teacher-led discussions of texts were examined to…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Style, Conflict, Discourse Analysis
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1993
A study investigated teachers' and staff developers' perceptions and assessment of the Whole Language Network (which assists teachers in using the whole language approach), the support provided to participants, changes in teaching and assessment practices, and the effects of such changes on student attitudes and achievement. A total of 164…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Faculty Development
Pellegrini, A. D.; And Others – 1994
A study examined the ways in which Head Start preschool children's vocabulary developed when they and their mothers engaged in joint reading. Subjects, 19 dyads, were observed as they interacted around expository texts presented in both familiar (newspaper toy advertisements) and traditional (trade books) formats. Subjects were observed in their…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Yang, Hua; Boykin, Wesley L. – 1994
A study examined the relationship between the attendance of parents of low-achieving students at scheduled school meetings and conferences and student performance in reading and language arts. Data were gathered from 73 Chapter 1 schools in the Dallas Independent School District. Variables used were the performance of Chapter 1 students in reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Correlation, Low Achievement
Tustin, Betty R. – 1985
Two approaches to spelling instruction were compared by measuring which program was more successful. Thirty-two fourth-grade students participated; instructional intervention spanned 6 months. The control group used the materials and procedures of the Macmillian Basal Series. The experimental group used the Spelltex Individualized Spelling Kit.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Elementary School Students
Chall, Jeanne S. – 1989
Phonics has been taught from the time of the ancient Greeks to make the written language more accessible. The first task of learning to read is learning to recognize in print the language used in speech. As a result of many studies conducted during the 1960s which demonstrated the effectiveness of phonics, its use as an instructional method…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Decoding (Reading), Educational History, Elementary Education
Howard, Katrena C.; DiSalvo, Mindy L. – 1989
Writing to Read (WTR), a project of the International Business Machine Corporation (IBM), is a language development program designed to facilitate reading, writing, listening and speaking skills of kindergarten and first grade students. This paper reports on an evaluation of WTR in a large suburban school district in Georgia seeking answers to the…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
LaBonty, Jan – 1990
Statistics on the reading habits of adult Americans are grim. Surveys of teachers reveal inadequate and unimpressive figures in recreational and professional reading and awareness of children's literature. Studies show that, as a whole, teachers are not avid readers. Furthermore, older teachers tend to be more prolific readers of both recreational…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, College Students, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes
Weaver, Connie – 1990
The question of whether research supports a "phonics first" approach to teaching reading is not entirely answerable by factual evidence or statistical data: the issue is partly a matter of values and opinion. The debate is over whether phonics should be taught and tested in isolation, as a prelude to reading texts (the phonics-first…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Phonics
Durgunoglu, Aydin Y.; And Others – 1991
A study investigated the factors influencing the English word identification performance of Spanish-speaking beginning readers. Thirty-two Spanish-speaking students (in kindergarten and first grade) from two urban schools who were identified as beginning, nonfluent readers were administered tests of letter naming, Spanish phonemic awareness,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Limited English Speaking, Multiple Regression Analysis, Phonemes
Wolter, Sharon Kaiser – 1986
A study investigated whether students instructed in the use of dialogue journals in reading classes would show a significant increase in reading comprehension as compared to students who did not use dialogue journals in reading class. Subjects, 77 seventh- and eighth-graders in an Iowa School, were assigned to either experimental or control…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Beverstock, Caroline, Ed.; Newman, Anabel P., Ed. – 1991
Reflecting a holistic approach by introducing many sides of an issue, this anthology of 16 journal articles and conference papers dating from 1985 to 1990 represents a selection of the best research and practice concerning the intersections of adult literacies with elementary and secondary education. The papers and articles are divided among four…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy
Iovino, Suzanne F. – 1989
A study determined the effect of outlining and networking on college students' comprehension and retention of expository text, and examined the individual difference of preferred dominant hemispheric mode for its effect and interaction with the notetaking strategy. Subjects, 98 students enrolled in a required study skills course at Delaware State…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Brain Hemisphere Functions, College Students, Graphic Organizers
