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Using a Simulation to Teach Reading Assessment to Preservice Teachers
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Ferguson, Kristen – Reading Teacher, 2017
Simulations are an underpinning pedagogy and tradition in some professional fields, such as medicine, yet are seldom used in education. In this study, the author reports on the findings of a reading assessment situation activity that she did with preservice early grade (kindergarten to grade 6) teachers. In addition to giving preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Literacy Education, Preservice Teachers
Closing the Gap Early: Implementing a Literacy Intervention for At-Risk Kindergartners in Urban Schools
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MacDonald, Colleen; Figueredo, Lauren – Reading Teacher, 2010
A history of poverty and low academic achievement in four urban schools pointed to the need to implement an early intervention focused on oral language and emergent literacy. The Kindergarten Early Literacy Tutoring (KELT) Program was designed to target senior (5 year old) kindergarten students most at-risk. The intervention consisted of an extra…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Early Intervention, Oral Language, Program Effectiveness
Librarians Look at Remedial Reading
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La Budde, Constance; Smith, Richard J. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Urges mobilizing all school resources for maximum support of the remedial reading program with special emphasis on use of the library. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Librarians, Questionnaires, Reading Instruction
Seven Crucial Issues in Reading
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Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Kindergarten, Perceptual Handicaps, Questionnaires
A Questionnaire to Measure Children's Awareness of Strategic Reading Processes.
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes the Metacomprehension Strategy Index, a multiple-choice questionnaire, and its supporting validity and reliability data. Discusses how teachers can use and interpret this information to evaluate middle and upper elementary students' knowledge of strategic reading processes. (MG)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Questionnaires, Reading Comprehension
Strike!--And the False Paradise of Ignoring It
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Reading Teacher, 1971
Outlines in question-and-answer form the main issues of the Newark, New Jersey teacher strike, early 1971. (MB)
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Speech Communication