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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
Matson, Barbara – Harvard Education Letter, 1996
The argument between advocates of the whole language approach and the phonics approach threatens to become so polarized and politicized that agreeing on a middle ground seems at times impossible, and the voices of reason and experience are drowned out. The debate erupted anew in California after alarming news stories about reading scores ranked…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1971
The Hartford Public School District has set up and is maintaining three Intensive Reading Centers, each of which provides a 10-weeks reading program for first graders. The purpose of the program is to improve the reading achievement of disadvantaged children. Children in groups of 10 or 11 move from teacher to teacher at 50-minute intervals. They…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedKirby, Phillip – Reading, 1992
Describes a successful literacy project involving the teacher, parents, and children in one kindergarten class in a small rural community in New South Wales, Australia. Discusses the classroom setting, teacher's approaches and reading style, introduction of a "writing center," parent involvement, role of the school library and librarian,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Brierley, Mirian – 1987
Children in Columbus, Ohio public schools participated in two nontraditional kindergarten programs during the 1986-1987 school year. Evaluations of the programs were undertaken to determine their success. One program involved a full day kindergarten that featured opportunities for increased personal and social development, as well as instruction…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Kindergarten
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning and Research Branch. – 1979
To assist Cree-speaking native Canadian students in English language acquisition, the Mighty Moose Reading Project was initiated with a threefold aim: to develop program materials designed specifically as supplementary beginning reading materials for native students; to determine the effectiveness of the materials in improving reading skills, oral…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Beginning Reading, Canada Natives, Cree
