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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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Polleck, Jody N. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this article is to elucidate how book clubs can be used as a forum to enhance students' social-emotional and academic learning. The author conducted a study in a small urban high school with 2 different book clubs: The younger group consisted of 2 African American 9th graders, 2 Latina 9th graders, and 1 African American 10th…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Clubs, Literacy
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Bulgren, Janis A.; Marquis, Janet G.; Lenz, B. Keith; Schumaker, Jean B.; Deshler, Donald D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2009
This study examined the effectiveness of a Question Exploration Routine and associated graphic organizer for enhancing the performance of students of diverse abilities when assessed on knowledge and comprehension of content and quality of written responses. Participants were 36 students with and without learning disabilities (LD) in Grades 9…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Instructional Materials
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Moats, Louisa C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly, 2004
One comprehensive curriculum designed to remediate chronic reading failure in adolescents directly addresses all the language weaknesses typical of these individuals. In many interlocking strands, phonological, semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, and discourse processing skills are cumulatively and systematically taught over several years.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Semantics, Word Recognition, Reading Failure