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Direct linkRichards, Janet C. – Qualitative Report, 2006
This inquiry applied an innovative sociocultural framework to examine transformations in preservice teachers' professional development as they worked with children at-risk in a summer literacy camp. The camp incorporated a community of practice model in which teams of masters and doctoral students mentored small groups of preservice teachers. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Professional Development, Sociocultural Patterns, Children
Download full textDepartment of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1997
In 1996, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) Youth Strategy introduced summer career placement programs, science and technology camps, and cooperative education programs for First Nations and Inuit youth in Canada. This evaluation focuses on the initial year of implementation, and is based on 100 telephone interviews…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Career Exploration, Cooperative Education
Pollock, John S. – 1994
A study examined the effectiveness of the Chapter 1 Early Literacy Summer School program. The program provided additional reading instruction to underachieving first-grade pupils at seven schools located throughout the Columbus, Ohio public school district. The program featured group instruction (with many of the activities modeled after the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
Norvell, Donna, Ed. – 1995
This manual presents a summer reading program for children. It was prepared to help Oklahoma public libraries plan activities that will enhance and enrich library services to all children. The ideas presented are designed to be flexible and can be expanded and adapted to suit library patrons' needs. The target audience for the Summer Reading…
Descriptors: Budgets, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Library Extension
Mattair, Valerie Lennox, Comp.; Broderick, Bridgid, Comp. – 1996
Funded by the Library Services and Construction Act, the 1997 Florida Library Youth Program is an extension of the successful and long-running Florida Summer Library Program to help librarians provide year-round programs for elementary school-aged children. The goal of the program is to introduce children to the library and its services, and to…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Library Services
Pollock, John S. – 1993
A study examined the effectiveness of the Chapter 1 Early Literacy Summer School program. The program provided additional reading instruction to underachieving first-grade pupils at six schools located throughout the Columbus, Ohio public school district. The program featured group instruction (with many of the activities modeled after the Reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1992
The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) is a summer employment program for youth ages 15 through 18 from all segments of society. The program provides teenage employment and accomplishes conservation work on public lands. This hearing provides testimony by participants and directors in or related to the Corps to request funding for the YCC. The opening…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Employment Opportunities, Experiential Learning, Federal Aid
Donaldson, William S. – 1993
The Summer Academic Skills Enhancement Program (SASEP) was offered in June-August 1993 to provide Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) clients with the reading comprehension and language mechanics skills required for employment in entry-level positions. A total of 125 referred clients were enrolled into both of two remedial courses of study.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Grammar, Pretests Posttests
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1999
This Read*Write*Now! activity poster presents, on one side, a colorful image encouraging children to share the fun of reading and writing, and, on the other side, 6 activity sheets offering fun and challenging ideas for adults' reading time with children. The activities are designed to expand a child's interest in and enthusiasm for reading and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Community Involvement, Literacy, Parent Participation
Pollock, John S. – 1992
A study examined the effectiveness of the Chapter 1 Early Literacy Summer School program. The program provided additional reading instruction to underachieving first-grade pupils at five schools located throughout the Columbus, Ohio public school district. The program featured group instruction (with many of the activities modelled after the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
Moon, M. Sherril; And Others – 1991
Developed as part of a study which attempted to integrate students with severe disabilities into regular recreational and leisure activities, this report focuses on integrating summer camps in the Greater Waltham (Massachusetts) area. It documents how a segregated camp for children and teens with disabilities can be closed down and the campers…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Camping, Change Strategies, Community Programs
Summers, Tracy; Blendinger, Jack – 1993
The West Point/Mississippi State University Enrichment Project was an intensive 5-week summer intervention for 117 at-risk students. Parents of these students were invited to participate in the parent component, and at the end of the program they were surveyed to determine their perceptions of the program. Whether involving parents had a positive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment, High Risk Students
Liu, Andy – 1993
The International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns is a mathematics competition for junior and senior high school students all over the world. The tournament began in 1980 in the former Soviet Union. Participants write contest papers locally, with emphasis on solving within a very generous time allowance a small number of interesting problems.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Competition, Correspondence Study, Foreign Countries
Robbins, Edward L.; Thompson, Linda – 1991
The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library's summer reading program aims to help children develop a love of reading by giving them full control over what and how much to read. A study examined the effects of the 1990 program, with special attention to low-achieving students. A quantitative analysis was undertaken of 164 first- through…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Library Extension, Low Achievement
Jonas, Edward D., Jr. – 1983
Project ALERT was developed as an education for employment component of the Summer Youth Employment Program for the summer of 1983, and represents an effort designed to address several critical needs emanating from the high unemployment rate among economically disadvantaged young persons. Each of 200 participants spent two and one-half days per…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth
