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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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The Effects of Explicitly Teaching Story Structure to Primary Grade Children
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Stevens, Robert J.; Van Meter, Peggy; Warcholak, Nicholas D. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
The importance of emergent literacy skills as a foundation for proficient reading has led to the development of interventions to teach these skills. These interventions are particularly important for children from disadvantaged homes because they often lack the home literacy experiences necessary for building foundational literacy skills prior to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Listening Comprehension, Primary Education, Emergent Literacy
Teaching Children to Become Fluent and Automatic Readers
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Kuhn, Melanie R.; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Morris, Robin D.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel; Woo, Deborah Gee; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Bradley, Barbara A.; Stahl, Steven A. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of two instructional approaches designed to improve the reading fluency of 2nd-grade children. The first approach was based on Stahl and Heubach's (2005) fluency-oriented reading instruction (FORI) and involved the scaffolded, repeated reading of grade-level texts over the course of each week.…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction