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Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. – 1997
This pamphlet describes the Texas Reading Initiative, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving reading instruction in Texas and begun after a challenge was issued by Governor George W. Bush that each and every child must learn to read. It lists the 8 key elements that were established to guide the initiative (including increasing awareness of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Achievement
Lukenbill, Shirley; Hollingsworth, Anne – 1979
This handbook provides planning, resources, and activities guidelines to assist libraries in implementing the Texas Summer Reading Club program for 1979 on folklore, the theme of which is "In Search of Texas Treasures." The manual is designed to aid those new at organizing a Summer Reading Club program and to complement activities…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Folk Culture, Guides
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Dissemination. – 1978
Intended for use by visitors to the Demonstration Schools in Individualized Instruction (DSII) network, this guide provides the following information: lists of members of the DSII steering committee and service center contact persons, explanations of the DSII and of Project CITE (Coordinated Information for Texas Educators), a visitor's checklist…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Individualized Instruction
Ermis, Shirley – State of Reading, 1996
Reports one south Texas school's efforts at promoting family literacy through a workshop program for low socioeconomic status families. Outlines activities of each of three workshops designed to foster good reading attitudes and abilities by teaching parents strategies and techniques to use when reading to their children. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Literacy, Low Income, Parent School Relationship
Jongsma, Eugene A. – 1981
This report presents case studies of the three exemplary projects within the Special Emphasis Project, a federally funded national study of how intensive reading programs might change the patterns of elementary school students who read one or more grades below grade level. An introductory section provides information on the history, organization,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Federal Programs, Program Descriptions
Houston Independent School District, TX. – 1966
THIS EVALUATION SUMMARY DESCRIBES AN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I PROJECT WHICH PROVIDED ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL SERVICES, EQUIPMENT, AND MATERIALS TO STUDENTS IN 25 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT WAS TO RAISE THE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS OF THE SCHOOLS. FIFTY-EIGHT "SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOLS" PARTICIPATED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment, Elementary Schools
