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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Cervetti, Gina; Pearson, P. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
In this commentary, the authors bring insights from their work on science-literacy integration at the elementary level to bear on the ongoing conversation about disciplinary literacy at the middle and secondary levels. In particular, the authors discuss what they have learned about inquiry, disciplinary reading strategies, and the role of text in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Literacy, Integrated Curriculum, Reading Strategies
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Archer, Laura E. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This study investigated average yearly reading growth norms of at-risk middle school students as a function of start of year reading grade level. Data for this study were collected from an urban school in the western United States over five years and tracked the yearly growth of 2,485 seventh- and eighth-grade students using a Lexile-linked…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Poverty, Second Language Learning
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Paterson, Patricia O.; Elliott, Lori N. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
This qualitative study examines the perceptions and responses of struggling ninth-grade readers who are teaching reading to struggling second- and third-grade students in a cross-age tutoring program. The program was designed to overcome the entrenched, negative affective barriers that older students often bring to the required reading class by…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Leadership, Role Models, Reading Ability