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Download full textGarcia, 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)
Toomey, Derek – 1992
A study examined the effectiveness of an emergent literacy program designed to encourage low-income parents to read to their children. Pre-school teachers in four low-income areas in Australia read to children in their class regularly. Three books were sent home with each child twice a week and the parents were asked to read to their children. A…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Low Income
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
Henry, Diane E. – 1994
A study implemented a self-assessment tool developed to better address the needs of students with low self-direction in an integrated kindergarten/first grade whole language classroom. The tool is an adaptation of the plan/do/review model of the High Scope curriculum for early childhood instruction. The teacher targets students with low…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Mixed Age Grouping, Primary Education
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
Reinwein, Joachim – 1993
This paper presents a new computer program called Zigzag, suited for investigating readers' mental activity during text processing. The program permits data collection of two different kinds, namely reading time and reading errors for each of the words read. The second dependent measure, reading errors, provides a better control of the readers'…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education
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
Hansen, Vagn Rabol; Robenhagen, Ole – 1993
A study established some characteristics of early readers and their homes and families, how they learned to read, and how their surroundings, and particularly the school, reacted. Approximately 300 Danish early readers and their families were interviewed and completed questionnaires. Results indicated that: (1) half the early readers had either a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Elementary School Students, Family Environment
Marks, Tracey A.; And Others – 1994
A study describes the process of two first-grade teachers incorporating the Reading Recovery process of "roaming around the known" in their regular classrooms. Their purpose was to assess what their students knew about print. Data collection for these case studies took place for 16 weeks late in 1992; participants included 49 first-grade…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Design, Elementary School Teachers
Fly, Pamela K. – 1994
Current theory posits that comprehension and meaning involve not only text but also what the reader brings to the text and the contextual elements of the reading. A study investigated how eight students in grade 9 read and created meaning from short story assignments in their English classrooms. Concurrent think-aloud protocols from four short…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, Grade 9
Jones, M. Gail; Carter, Glenda – 1994
A study described the social interactions of ability-grouped dyads as they construct knowledge of the scientific concept of balance to elucidate the relationship between interactions and conceptual growth. The verbal and nonverbal behaviors of 30 fifth-grade students were recorded as they completed three activities related to balance and levers.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Newman, Anabel; And Others – 1992
A study examined the effectiveness of the 1991-1992 implementation of the CONSULT-I(R) program (which uses artificial intelligence with statistical pattern recognition in constructing a diagnosis and recommending treatment of reading difficulties) at five cities in Ohio (Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo). A total of 30 teachers…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Schooley, Felicia A. – 1994
A study investigated ability grouping for reading within a heterogeneous classroom and the effect such grouping has on attitudes toward reading. Subjects, 23 students in an ethnically diverse third-grade classroom in central Virginia, completed reading attitude surveys. Classroom observations of the teacher and students were conducted. Results…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Research, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness
Lore, Rosemary; Chamberlain, Ed – 1992
The Chapter 1 Reading Program of the Columbus, Ohio public schools provided assistance to selected underachieving students in grades one through eight in order that they might attain more fully their potential for and improvement of language and skills. The program featured small group instruction arranged according to pupil needs. The program…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Family Involvement, High Risk Students
