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Cobb, Jeanne B. – Reading Horizons, 1998
Examines four case study pairings of college student volunteer tutors with fourth-grade at-risk children. Notes that the efforts of these tutors and their students all resulted in significant literacy gains. Describes in detail the social interactions of these dyads and identifies common themes, characteristics, and categories which emerged from…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 4
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Thomas, Patricia; Mountain, Lee – Reading Horizons, 1977
Discusses in detail a three-step lesson for a remedial reading group of nine-year-old students. (JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Remedial Reading
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Thompson, Mark E. – Reading Horizons, 1977
Discusses some of the unique problems within higher education which are present as a result of an open-door policy for students. (JM)
Descriptors: College Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Open Enrollment
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Morsink, Catherine – Reading Horizons, 1977
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty
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Huffman, Gail M.; Weddle, Nancy M. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes strategies for building comprehension and teaching techniques that encourage readers to use their knowledge of language and their experience to make sense of material they are reading. (MKM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
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Shuman, R. Baird; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes the use of a structured language experience approach and an imitative, or taped book, approach to teaching reading to children who were reading with difficulty. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
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Haase, Ann Marie Bernazza; Robinson, Richard – Reading Horizons, 1978
Discusses the common stereotypes of the older adult in college reading programs; describes the educational performance of these students and outlines provisions to consider in planning for the older reader. (MAI)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Older Adults
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Offers guidelines for establishing a remedial reading program that will be useful and innovative and will meet the exact instructional needs of those students who need prescriptive help for overcoming deficiencies in areas such as word attack, comprehension, and study skills. (HOD)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Program Development, Reading Instruction, Remedial Programs
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Usova, George M. – Reading Horizons, 1977
Presents suggestions which can serve as guidelines for the secondary level principal when a remedial reading program is being set up. (JM)
Descriptors: Principals, Program Development, Reading Instruction, Remedial Programs
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Kavale, Kenneth; Hirshoren, Alfred – Reading Horizons, 1977
Examines why profile analysis "adds spurious specificity and misarticulated authority to quasi-diagnostic statements." Concludes that the difficulties inherent in diagnostic reading tests suggest that they are best utilized in comparing a child's performance with a norm group. (JM)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Profiles, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests
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Hughers, Robert D. – Reading Horizons, 1976
Shares some ideas for motivating students to read. (RB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Morrison, Connie Strong – Reading Horizons, 1974
Describes a six-week experimental cross-age tutoring program involving seventh and eighth graders deficient in reading skills as tutors of kindergarten through sixth grade students also exhibiting deficiencies in reading skills. (TO)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
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O'Bruba, William S. – Reading Horizons, 1975
Discusses a series of steps teachers can follow to provide help for students who are experiencing reading difficulty. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Difficulty, Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading
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VanderMeulen, Kenneth – Reading Horizons, 1975
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Reading Difficulty, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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Harvey, Maria Luisa Alvarez – Reading Horizons, 1974
Argues that the best approach to teaching beginning and remedial reading is one that incorporates a variety of methods and techniques. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading
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