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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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PAVEd for Success: An Evaluation of a Comprehensive Preliteracy Program for Four-Year-Old Children
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Hamilton, Claire E.; Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey; Restrepo, M. Adelaida; Bradley, Barbara A.; Webb, Mi-Young – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of "PAVEd for Success," comprehensive preliteracy program guidelines to support the development of foundational preliteracy skills in 4 year olds. Prekindergarten teachers received professional development on variables of the program that included a summer institute, after-school…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Preschool Education, Phonological Awareness, Decoding (Reading)
A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of the Relationship between Motivation to Read and Reading Fluency Skill in Second Grade
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Quirk, Matthew; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Webb, Mi-young – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
This short-term longitudinal study investigated the relationships between students' reading self-concept, goals for reading, and reading fluency skill over the course of the second grade year. Second-grade children (N = 185) were administered the Test of Word Reading Efficiency, the second-grade Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Educational Practices, Path Analysis
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
Interaction Quality During Partner Reading
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Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Bradley, Barbara A.; Stahl, Steven A. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2004
The influence of social relationships, positive interdependence, and teacher structure on the quality of partner reading interactions was examined. Partner reading, a scripted cooperative learning strategy, is often used in classrooms to promote the development of fluent and automatic reading skills. Forty-three pairs of second grade children were…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Learning Strategies
Partial Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Growth during Reading Comprehension.
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Stahl, Steven A.; McFalls, Elisabeth L. – Journal of Literacy Research, 1997
Investigates development of vocabulary knowledge in fourth graders as a function of story reading for partially known and unknown words. Finds vocabulary growth was small but even for both partially known and unknown words; however, the characteristics of the words being learned themselves (particularly, part of speech and concreteness) were more…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Context Availability and the Development of Word Reading Skill.
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Noyes, Caroline R. – Journal of Literacy Research, 1996
Examines the influence of word meanings on lexical processing in high- and low-skill readers. States that rated context availability was a significant predictor of lexical decision times and word reading accuracy beyond nonsemantic factors. Finds that ability to retrieve meanings of low-context-availability words easily is an important component…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 3