Thirty-one incarcerated handicapped adolescents who participated in 18 sessions of individual reading and arithmetic tutoring evidenced gains in achievement, with a greater gain in arithmetic than in reading. (CL)

Emphasizes the major needs and goals of the Right to Read program during a period marked by cutbacks in federal programs. (RB)

In a brief position paper, the Arizona Education Association states its argument against Dr. Weldon P. Shofstall, the State Superintendent of Education, who announced a policy of grade promotion based on performance in reading proficiency. (JW)

Recalculated National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Assessment results to include those from special-needs students who were tested with accommodations and examined the relationship between reading performance and varying state exclusion rates for special-needs students. Findings show that the magnitude of the increase in…

A metacognitive approach is presented to improve students' reading achievement by teaching them to think about reading and to be aware of expository text structure. Use of metacognitive skills produces a greater awareness of text structure and meaning. (SLD)

Metalinguistic awareness, one's awareness of and control over one's language, is described; related research is discussed; and studies that have attempted to determine the relationship between metalinguistic awareness and bilingualism are examined. (18 references) (JL)

Discusses the use of "Lexile" units as measures of reading ability. (SLD)

Xu and von Davier (2006) demonstrated the feasibility of using the general diagnostic model (GDM) to analyze National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) proficiency data. Their work showed that the GDM analysis not only led to conclusions for gender and race groups similar to those published in the NAEP Report Card, but also allowed…

This article reports results derived from the national study of Grade 5 in Vietnamese primary schools in which teachers and pupils took tests in reading and mathematics. The test data were calibrated so that teacher and pupil results could be mapped onto the same continuum. Results showed that the overlapping tests for teachers and pupils were…

We evaluated the validity of DIBELS ("Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills") ORF ("Oral Reading Fluency") for predicting performance on the "Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test" (FCAT-SSS) and "Stanford Achievement Test" (SAT-10) reading comprehension measures. The usefulness of previously…

Television viewing plays an important role in the lives of many young children and has received a great deal of attention in the public as well as in research. This review examined research on television and literacy development in early childhood, including studies of messages about literacy in children's programs as well as the impact of…

This study compared elementary and special education teachers' knowledge of when K-3 students develop key reading competencies, their knowledge of who is responsible for teaching K-3 students key reading competencies, and teachers' perceptions of their own instructionally relevant competencies to those standards articulated within their state's…

This study examined the effects of using a research based print reading program modified to accommodate beginning braille readers using an alphabet or uncontracted braille reading approach with five beginning braille readers. Four of the 5 participants displayed a clear increase in their ability to read high frequency words when they began using…