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What Works Clearinghouse, 2008
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) have identified topic areas that present a wide range of this nation's most pressing issues in education (e.g., middle school math, beginning reading, and character education). Within each selected topic area, the WWC collects studies of interventions (i.e., programs,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Middle Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Beginning Reading
Electronic Education, 1984
Describes Dr. John Henry Martin's theory of how children can learn to write phonetically before learning to read and how this theory developed into a computer-based teaching system called "Writing to Read." A program evaluation by Martin and IBM is discussed, and a source is given for further information. (MBR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Theories, Microcomputers
Williams, Joanna P. – 1979
The paper describes an instructional program that teaches basic decoding skills to learning disabled children, presents the rationale for its development, and offers results of field trials designed to evaluate its effectiveness. The program "ABD's (analysis, blending, decoding) of Reading," initially focuses on auditory tasks and the…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Erwin, Barbara K.; Mangano, Nancy – 1981
The Bryan Independent School District (Texas) has implemented a primary grade parent involvement program based on a home-partnership model and a contract of cooperation between the parents and schools. By signing the contract, the parents agree to (1) listen to their child read 15 minutes three days a week; (2) read a story a day to their child;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Saterfiel, Thomas H.; Handley, Herbert M. – 1983
A privately funded project that placed reading aides in the first three grades of the public schools was initiated in a rural county of Mississippi. The program provided a paraprofessional assistant reading instructor who worked under the direction of a classroom teacher to strengthen and enrich children's work in small groups or in an educational…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Instructional Improvement, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
Ellenzweig, Judith – 1990
Project SOLID START is an integrated reading program involving regular classroom, special education, and reading teachers, and parent volunteers in the Melrose, Massachusetts public schools. SOLID START supports beginning literacy in a developmental, rather than a remedial, mode. The project tests the hypothesis that a carefully structured,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students
Clements, Nancy E. – Georgia Journal of Reading, 1988
Reports on a pilot program for developmental placement in Brevard County, Florida. Discusses various aspects of the program, including teacher education, student screening, parent involvement, cost, and program evaluation. Asserts that developmental placement aids students' academic progress. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Developmental Stages, Inservice Teacher Education