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Advantage Learning Systems' Accelerated Reading Program

In this paper consisting of six pages a study of this program's effects is proposed as it relates to middle school students' readi...

At Risk Students and Reading Instruction

In seventeen pages this paper examined how to teach reading to at risk students in a consideration of how reading instruction can ...

Fourth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension Skills Improvement

grades, and the development of alternative reading programs has come as an extension of teachers response to this problem. Purp...

Elementary Classroom and Reading Aloud

In five pages this essay discusses the importance of oral reading for elementary school students in a consideration of how it impr...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

Wilson Reading Program and Multisensory Reading

and Resource Center, 2002). From the initial lesson, the program includes sight word instruction, fluency, vocabulary, oral expres...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Post Reading Exercises

presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...

Low Reading Levels and Teens At Risk

prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...

Reading Instruction to a 5th Grade Boy Who Cannot Read

the sounds letters make. For him, a phonics program in which the starts out by learning letter sounds, how those sounds combine to...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Review of Education Articles

each other at a small table. The student selects a book, looks at the illustrations, reads a couple of sentences and then, predict...

Short Fiction's Depiction of Families

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Bilingual Reading Studies and Using Multicultural Stories and Literature Circles to Improve Levels of Reading

years, the debate has been waged about the efficacy of bilingual education, bilingual enrichment, immersion programs, ESL (English...

Sight Based Reading Programs, Phonics, and Reading Comprehension

In seventeen pages this research study considers the differences that exist between sight based and phonics reading program with t...

Real Life Situations and Readings' Applicability

In four pages this essay reviews texts on community and education and then applies them to the teaching field in terms of how teac...

Reading Theories and Reading Instruction

text he or she is reading (Abraham, 2000). This requires that the reader not only "decode" the information contained in the text, ...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Computer-Based Instruction/Effect on Reading Achievement

p. 7 Chapter 2--Review of Related Literature... p. 7 Articles summarizing research ............ p. 8 Studies Students w/langua...

Assessing Reading

recent studies suggest that goal will not be achieved (Manzo, 2005). A Rand report stated that reading has improved in the primary...

The Need for Hard-Back Books

numbers. Sometimes, those who digitize these books number the paragraphs, but often they do not. Most of the books in Project Gute...

English Language Teaching And Metacognition

to clarify: if a student asks what a word means, he is using cognition; if the student asks what the best way is to learn and reme...

Memory, Cognition & Media Questions

it seems reasonable to predict that scientists will soon understand much more about the causes of these diseases and also how to p...

Understanding Foreign Policy

connection with the future development of humanity as a species is both grand and far-reaching; that the coupling of cognitive sci...

Visual Neuroscience: Summary Of Two Articles About Perception

the mind does not see the dots for themselves and only perceives the holistic value of the star. The law of closure provides expl...

Leadership in Entrepreneurial Cognition

provides guidance in decision making as well, ensuring that the organization stays on the track that its leaders have predetermine...

Oliver Sacks—An Anthropologist on Mars

totally impossible for a normally sighted person. When offered the chance to possibly have his color vision restored, he turned it...

Memory and the Aging Process

the memories that people recall is attached to certain phases and stages of life. Some people have difficulty recalling childhood ...

Experiential and Brain-Based

because there is not enough space. Also, the constructivist approach is prevalent in regular education-think of Piaget and Vygotsk...