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50 Years of ERIC
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Building and Rebuilding a Statewide Support System for Literacy Coaches
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Walpole, Sharon; McKenna, Michael C.; Morrill, Julie K. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2011
In this article the authors recount the history and challenges of implementing coaching in 153 Georgia elementary schools over the 6-year period of Reading First funding. After outlining the expectations of Reading First, they describe the particular demands of coaching in a reform setting and detail the formative lessons that allowed the program…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Teacher Response, Academic Achievement, Professional Development
Phonics Software for a New Millennium.
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McKenna, Michael C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2002
Considers how good phonics instruction should encourage children to recognize rimes and to identify an unfamiliar word by blending its onset with the rime that follows. Discusses seven conclusions/implications for phonics software derived from research into phonics instruction. (SG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Selection, Decoding (Reading)
Introduction to Electronic Literacy -- Part 1.
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Topping, Keith J.; McKenna, Michael C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Introduces this special issue on electronic literacy, which refers to literacy activities (e.g., in reading, writing, spelling) that are delivered, supported, accessed, or assessed digitally through computers or other electronic means rather than on paper. Suggests electronic literacy is not just an additional component to the existing definition…
Descriptors: Definitions, Electronic Text, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
The Electronic Transformation of Literacy and Its Implications for the Struggling Reader.
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McKenna, Michael C.; Reinking, David; Labbo, Linda D.; Kieffer, Ronald D. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Examines how changes in the nature of text, brought about by its electronic representation, will increasingly affect the circumstances of struggling readers. Argues that the textual transformation now in progress holds great promise for such readers. Discusses the emerging view of reading disability based on developmental stage theory. Recommends…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Electronic Text, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Using Talking Books with Reading-Disabled Students.
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McKenna, Michael C.; Reinking, David – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Notes that talking books have the potential to give remedial students extensive supported practice in real reading. Suggests talking books must not be regarded as a means of fully meeting the teacher's instructional responsibility to these students. Concludes that talking books represent a new resource for an old dilemma, but they are not a total…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Nonprint Media, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction