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Direct linkVan Keer, Hilde; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
To close the gap between reading research and the reality of instruction, the authors developed a reading comprehension approach for elementary school, aiming at explicit instruction and practice of reading comprehension strategies. Their approach encompasses two complementary cornerstones: explicit instruction in reading strategies and creating…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Peer Teaching, Tutoring
Takanishi, Ruby; Kauerz, Kristie – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
Within the broad P-16 framework, the transition from high school to college has commanded the bulk of attention from policy makers, think tanks, foundations, and the research community in general. Immediate and long-term concerns about the skills of the American work force and global competitiveness fuel this focus. Significantly less attention…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Quality, Labor Force Development, Preschool Education
Sloat, Elizabeth A.; Beswick, Joan F.; Willms, J. Douglas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
Most children who do not learn to read during the primary grades will probably never learn to read well. Children who reach the end of third grade with low literacy skills typically have less access to the regular curriculum, require long-term support, and fall further behind their peers in literacy achievement and curricular knowledge. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Identification
Post, Becky – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Russia's educational system has been successful in producing graduates who excel in mathematics, the sciences, and foreign languages, but these are not the only areas that we might look to as models. Russian and American cultures and educational practices differ in significant ways, and not all of the practices described here would be workable in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Teaching Methods, Discipline
Wilson, G. Pat; Martens, Prisca; Arya, Poonam; Altwerger, Bess – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
Are programs that emphasize systematic phonics instruction truly superior to other types of programs for young readers, as the National Reading Panel claims? The authors conducted a study of three different programs to see what kinds of readers are actually emerging from them. Two were commercial programs that used explicit and systematic phonics…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Early Reading, Teaching Methods, Inferences
Foster, Michele – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
While researchers continue to debate teacher qualifications, explore how to get more qualified teachers into urban schools serving low-income students, or try to determine whether teachers who are successful with middle-class students would also be successful with pupils in low-income urban schools, one practicable idea can easily be overlooked.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Income, Teacher Qualifications
