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Kosanovich, Marcia L. – 1996
A study examined evidence that first graders are able to analyze and respond to picture books. The study resulted from the collaboration of an eighth-grade class and a first-grade class. The eighth graders were given the task of writing, illustrating, and reading a picture book for the first graders. The first-grade class was randomly divided into…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, Grade 1
Carico, Kathleen M. – 1996
A study examined the effects of a reader response approach to literature in which literature is viewed as a medium for exploration and the effects of such an approach on a group of young women. Subjects of the study were four female middle school students, with the adult female researcher as participant observer. Books chosen for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discourse Communities, Ethnography, Females
Peterson, Mary E. H. – 1997
Many studies have found that literacy exists in low-SES (low socioeconomic status) children's daily lives--it is the meaning, frequency of use, depth, and general use of literacy at home that affect the children's progress in school. Research studies clearly show differences in home literacy development of low-SES and higher income children that…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Family Environment, Literacy
Kurywczak, Jennifer – 1997
A study examined whether retention of sight vocabulary words could be increased by implementing the tactile modality to a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic based lesson. A total of 10 first-grade remedial reading students in Elizabeth, New Jersey, were assigned to control and experimental groups, with 5 students in each group. Upon completion of 7…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Kinesthetic Methods
Parrila, R. K.; Das, J. P. – 1996
Sixty-one grade 1 students experiencing early reading difficulties received either a cognitive remediation program (PREP; PASS Remediation Program) designed to facilitate successive and simultaneous processing skills, or a meaning-based language enrichment program designed to provide children with meaningful experiences in reading. Repeated…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Early Intervention
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1988
Describing the characteristics and attitudes of a nationally representative sample of 36,000 students in grades 3, 7, and 11, this report details the specific features of reading instruction, how students approach their reading tasks, student reading experiences, and the home and school supports to academic achievement. The report is based the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Grade 11, Grade 3
Fear, Marion J. – 1991
A study surveyed adults with literacy problems and evaluated the Parents-as-Partners-as-Learners project. Eighty English-speaking adults in the eastern townships of Quebec, Canada, were interviewed concerning their literacy problems. Results indicated that health and social problems were identified by the adults as the major impediment to…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Elementary Education, Family Literacy
Kinzer, Charles K., Ed.; Leu, Donald J., Ed. – 1994
The 55 conference papers, the annual review of research, and the student-award-winning paper in this yearbook cover such diverse topics in the field of reading as assessment, content-area reading, early literacy, teacher education, teacher behavior, and construction of meaning through writing. The yearbook opens with the presidential address to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy, Higher Education
Carrasco, Miguel A. – 1994
A study investigated the effects of the literature-based reading instruction on the reading achievement of Mexican-American first graders in Spanish. Using a posttest-only control group design and "t" test for independent samples, results indicated that after three months the experimental group of 30 students (attending a 100% Hispanic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students
Olson, Patricia S. – 1985
This compilation presents material relating to the ReCaRe (Reading and Content-area Resource) program, a one-semester elective course for secondary school students of all ability levels designed to develop their reading comprehension, vocabulary, rate of reading, and study skills. The first part of the compilation is a 48-page booklet entitled…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Demonstration Programs, Individualized Instruction, Lesson Plans
Kitao, Kenji – 1995
A series of six studies of the reading ability of Japanese high school and college students investigated the ability of students to process various literary forms and the types of questions students have difficulty with at different levels of reading proficiency. Over 25,000 students completed various versions of an English reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students
Saulawa, Danjuma; Nweke, Winifred – 1992
A study investigated the efficacy of using the Language Experience Approach (LEA) with a 15-year-old special education fifth-grade rural black student who did not seem to benefit from traditional skills training procedures. The subject was reading below the first grade level and was a sole survivor of two parallel single-subject design studies.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Wepner, Shelley B. – 1991
A year-long study examined the effects of a computer-based reading project on students' attitudes and performance in reading and writing. Subjects (73 "at-risk" eighth-grade students in an inner-city school in Paterson, New Jersey) were randomly divided into control and experimental groups. The experimental group used a software package…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 8, High Risk Students
Peak, Janie; Dewalt, Mark W. – 1993
The objective of this study was to determine if the Accelerated Reader Program significantly improved reading skills of middle-school students. This computerized enrichment program combines over 750 classics with computers. Subjects for the study were college-prep freshmen from two junior high schools within the Gaston County (North Carolina)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Intermode Differences, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Gersten, Russell; Woodward, John – 1993
A study investigated how schools and teachers attempt to meet the needs of language minority students and to utilize literature as a means to teach English language reading to students while building their English language capacities. Language arts and reading instruction was observed in 12 third- through fifth-grade classrooms in three elementary…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
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