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Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex; Chen, Victor; Furuya, Yukiko – Editorial Projects in Education, 2020
In fall of 2019, the EdWeek Research Center set out to gain a clearer sense of nationwide teacher and teacher education perceptions and practices by sending out two surveys about topics related to early reading instruction, especially as it related to phonics. One survey was taken by 674 K-2 and elementary special education teachers who indicated…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Early Reading, Reading Instruction, Phonics
Gove, Amber; Cvelich, Peter – RTI International, 2011
As necessary as reading is to the success of a child--and entire nations--many low-income countries overlook the fundamental duty of their school systems to produce readers. Galvanized by the Education For All (EFA) mission to provide universal access to primary education by 2015, donors and low-income countries have focused on scaling up inputs…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, International Education, Textbooks, Beginning Reading
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Williams, E. Jane; Scharer, Patricia L.; Pinnell, Gary Su – 2000
This report describes the Literacy Collaborative, which provides long-term professional development and support for teachers who are helping children learn effective literacy skills. The overall goal is to significantly raise the level of literacy achievement for children across the elementary years. The first two sections of the report describe…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1979
Work on the development of a phonics test that will be incorporated into a total word identification test battery has continued for several years. A prototype of the test was developed in winter 1977, and a revised version was administered in spring 1978. Analysis of this test data revealed several problems, and new criteria for the test were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Error Patterns, Phonics
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1979
The six tables in this report rank the combinations of reading materials used in the classrooms of 34 elementary schools of Washington, D.C., during the 1976-77 academic year. The data are based on teacher reports about first through sixth grade students for whom there were both pretest and posttest scores. The tables indicate that a wide variety…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Coley, Richard J. – 2002
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) follows a nationally representative sample of children from kindergarten through fifth grade. This study analyzed the first results from the ECLS-K about kindergartners performance on a variety of reading and mathematics tasks, and it gathered valuable contextual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education