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Peer reviewedBorduin, Beverly Jean; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1997
Presents three brief articles containing suggestions from teachers on teaching reading: a summer reading program that successfully kept beginning readers reading over the summer; an inquiry project in which third graders saw the power of being literate and the profusion of literacy activities in the nonschool world; and engaging students in active…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedO'Day, Shannon – Primary Voices K-6, 2001
Chronicles how the author first used creative drama in a summer reading program with first graders, and then over the years developed a much broader understanding of how drama is an important teaching tool. Describes writing "scaffolded" plays with sixth-grade students. Discusses implications for language arts teachers. Describes her annual…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Davidson, Judith; Koppenhaver, David – 1993
Resulting from the Center for Adolescent Literacy's investigation of reading programs that refuse to tolerate acquiescence to the inevitability of reading failure, the second edition of this book describes what works and why in adolescent literacy, through case studies and through observations gleaned from extensive literature searches and site…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs
