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Download full textHertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; Schaedel, Bruria – 1997
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Success for All (SFA) program developed at Johns Hopkins University. The program emphasizes prevention of failure, personal tutoring, family-school program, and regular evaluation of student progress. In 1996, the program involved schools in northern Israel--Arabic and Jewish, religious and secular.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Anhalt, Mary Emily; And Others – 1995
An action research study described and evaluated a program for improving the reading comprehension of targeted first, second, and third grade students, in a progressive suburban community in northern Illinois. The problem was noted by the researchers, who in recent years had observed a need for improvement in reading comprehension as indicated by…
Descriptors: Action Research, Incentives, Independent Reading, Instructional Effectiveness
Forlizzi, Lori – 1992
A project explored the reading comprehension skills and strategies of adult basic education (ABE) students. The target population was 55 students from 2 ABE programs in central Pennsylvania. They responded in interviews to a questionnaire that measured their knowledge about reading and reading comprehension strategies, and they participated in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Decoding (Reading), Educational Needs
Hardison, Debra M. – 1992
A study investigated the role of pragmatics, the factors that govern choice of language in social interaction, on interpretation of elliptical verb phrases (VPs) in spoken English by learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Ellipsis requires the listener to recall the surface form of a presupposed element and to integrate it into the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Research
Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Akin, Carolyn E. – 1993
Two experiments examined developmental trends in children's lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words. The first experiment examined children's on-line comprehension of abstract and concrete words. Subjects were 15 second or third graders and 15 college adults at the University of Georgia. The second experiment provided a stronger test of…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages
Rasinski, Timothy V. – 1994
Fast Start is a program designed to get primary grade children off to a successful start in learning to read through intensive and systematic parental involvement that is coordinated through the school and is based upon proven and effective methods of parent-child interaction around reading. The program is simple to learn, easy to implement,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation
Brisbois, Judith E. – 1992
A study focused on enhancing the validity of foreign language (L2) reading comprehension assessment measures. Subjects included 131 cadets (88 beginners and 43 non-beginners) enrolled in French courses at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. First language (L1) reading comprehension was measured using the…
Descriptors: College Students, French, Higher Education, Protocol Analysis
Dixon, Richard – 1992
Learning strategies are the steps taken to facilitate acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information. Although this process is common to all learners, researchers have found that good second language learners consciously use appropriate language strategies. Strategies are identified in these broad categories: cognitive; memory;…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Language Processing
Young, Lyn – 1993
Noting that a small portion of older emergent readers are usually found in all primary classes, this pamphlet discusses how teachers can help students with reading difficulties see how to fit together the snippets of literacy-related information they may have already acquired. After a brief introduction, the pamphlet suggests that children learn…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
Pica, Teresa; And Others – Penn Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1990
A pilot study of a larger project on second language comprehension under two input conditions is reported. The first condition is characterized by the availability of samples of target input that have been modified a priori toward greater semantic redundancy and transparency and less complex syntax. The second condition is characterized by the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comprehension, English (Second Language), Interaction Process Analysis
Hynd, Cynthia R.; And Others – 1993
A study investigated changes in prospective elementary teachers' conceptions about projectile motion. The preservice teachers (enrolled in reading methods courses) were either told or not told that they were expected to teach a videotaped lesson on projectile motion. In addition, they either participated in a combined demonstration-reading or in a…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Higher Education
Erlenbusch, Sue Jones – 1993
Designed to introduce students to pleasure reading while teaching and reinforcing reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and critical thinking skills, this book presents over 240 reproducible quizzes, activities, and project pages. The book is divided into 12 monthly units covering four favorite children's books each, all suitable for…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Critical Thinking
El-Hindi, Amelia E. – 1993
A study examined how metacognition and motivation related to performance among college learners seeking to improve their skills in reading and writing. Subjects, 27 female and 16 male students representing a range of ethnicities and socio-economic conditions who were enrolled in a pre-freshman summer program at a major northern university, had…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Locus of Control
Abdo, Pamela J.; Chan, Amy E.; Englund, Tonya R.; Liljegren, Roy D.; Mielenhausen, Steve E.; Van Fossen, Margaret A. – 1998
This report describes a program designed to increase students' knowledge in the science content area utilizing reading comprehension strategies. The targeted population consisted of grade 6 middle school students in a growing urban community in eastern Iowa. The students demonstrated poor comprehension of their science textbook. Data also revealed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Educational Strategies, Grade 6
McGatha, Maggie; Cobb, Paul; McClain, Kay – 1998
It is important to develop instructional sequences that build on students' current understandings and support shifts in their current ways of thinking. As part of the pilot work for a project on mathematics teaching, classroom performance assessments were conducted to obtain baseline data on students' current statistical understandings. The…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Assessment, Grade 7, Junior High School Students
