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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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Bergeron, Bette S.; Bradbury-Wolff, Melody – Reading Horizons, 2010
The purpose of this article is to describe how teachers can foster strategic reading processes in their early literacy classrooms, and how to incorporate a Strategy Perception Interview to assist in documenting students' use and perceptions of these strategies. Descriptions of classroom instruction incorporating literacy strategies and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Gender Differences, Reading Processes, Emergent Literacy
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Lynch, Jacqueline; Anderson, Jim; Anderson, Ann; Shapiro, Jon – Reading Horizons, 2008
This research reports on one area of a larger study in Western Canada examining the literacy activities of families from culturally diverse backgrounds. The research focused on parents' interactions with preschool children in storybook sharing and children's emergent reading development as measured by the "Test of Early Reading Ability-2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Early Reading
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Thomas, Karen F. – Reading Horizons, 2007
In December of 2006 and again in February of 2007, fifty Literacy Professors representing almost every college and university in Michigan met in a collegial forum to discuss and advocate for all students involved in reading instruction/education. This advocacy spans students from prekindergarten through college undergraduates and graduates. The…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Higher Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Education
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Pearman, Cathy J.; Lefever-Davis, Shirley – Reading Horizons, 2006
CD-ROM storybooks can support the development of the five essential elements of reading instruction identified by The National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Specific features inherent in these texts, audio pronunciation of text, embedded vocabulary definitions and animated graphics can be used…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Technology, Computer Peripherals, Phonemes
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Qian, Gayoyin; Pan, Junlin – Reading Horizons, 2006
Susanna, a young girl from a low-income Chinese immigrant family, develops her oral language proficiency quickly in Head Start and kindergarten; however, she needs more support in her reading and writing. This case study examines an unusual journey of Susanna's learning to read and write in English. Observations in her home indicate a home with…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Literacy Education, Kindergarten, Oral Language
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Lightsey, Gwyn E.; Frye, Barbara J. – Reading Horizons, 2004
This article focuses on practical classroom ideas for enhancing early literacy learning by teaching a broad range of metalinguistic skills. These skills include phonemic and word awareness, but focus largely on syntactic and pragmatic skills in order to give children a richer understanding of language and its functions. Theoretical background is…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Instruction, Metalinguistics, Emergent Literacy