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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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Carreker, Suzanne H.; Swank, Paul R.; Tillman-Dowdy, Lynn; Neuhaus, Graham F.; Monfils, Mary Jo; Montemayor, Mary Lou; Johnson, Paul – Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly, 2005
First and second grade public school teachers were trained through interactive video-conferencing to implement "Language Enrichment," an Orton-Gillingham-based literacy instruction. The effectiveness of the linguistically informed training was demonstrated by documenting the longitudinal third grade reading comprehension achievement of their…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Inservice Teacher Education, Reading Instruction, Language Enrichment
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Liang, Lauren Aimonette; Peterson, Cheryl A.; Graves, Michael F. – Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly, 2005
This instructional study investigated the effects of two approaches to fostering elementary students' comprehension of literature. Participants were 54 third-grade students in 2 classrooms in a linguistic and culturally diverse, urban elementary school. Students read two folktales, receiving a Scaffolded Reading Experience (SRE) unit with one…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension
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Kurby, Christopher A.; Britt, M. Anne; Magliano, Joseph P. – Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly, 2005
This study examined the extent to which readers integrate information from related texts as a function of both top-down evaluation processes and bottom-up resonance. In Experiment 1, participants read and recalled ambiguous texts about events that were preceded by a descriptive text (primer) of the event. Participants' recall of the ambiguous…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Recall (Psychology), Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes