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Elementary School and DISTAR Reading Program

DISTAR reading program is being used more widely all the time" (Hone, 1994, p. PG). First introduced in the 1960s, DISTAR -- whic...

How a New Teacher Should Teach Reading

a time (Torgesen, 1998). Letter-sound knowledge can be measured by presenting one letter at a time and asking the child what sound...

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...

The Elementary School Classroom

in one corner of the playground there was a collapsible table covered with pots of paste, construction paper, crayons, chalk, scis...

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...

The Use of a New Math Program

articles in professional and popular media has placed a renewed concern about math performance of American students at the forefro...

Plan For Building School, Parent, Community Partnership

for the grade level (Epstein, 1995). * Parent conferences are held twice each year at this school. The process will change to req...

Elementary Students and the Teaching of Globe Reading and Map Skills

In seven pages this paper examines how globe reading and map schools can be taught to elementary school students. Seven sources a...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Physical Education in Elementary Schools

In eight pages the evolution and continued change of elementary schools' PE programs are examined in terms of their improvements a...

Proposal for an Elementary School Career Guidance Program

the concept of work into their idea of self and they do this by identifying with an important adult in their lives (Marino, 1998)....

Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

or they ignore the information. This is one of the reasons it is so important to instill that knowledge and those practices in chi...

Elementary Schools' Innovative Programs

In five pages this research paper discusses program innovations for American schools that assist reading, science, and math educat...

Elementary School Students and Reading Comprehension Skills Increasing

In five pages this research paper examines such strategies as POSSE in a consideration of how to increase the reading comprehensio...

Elementary Classrooms, Technology, and Reading

thinking proficiency, encourage the use of writing skills to communicate with others, and improve research capabilities," says Wal...

Reading Instruction and Standardized Test Scores

standardized test to determine which teaching method was most viable would be helpful in assessing the reading skills of the third...

Teaching Strategies for Reading Comprehension

In seven pages this paper presents a literature review on various elementary school teaching strategies for reading comprehension....

Reading Curriculum Development and Evaluation

In eleven pages the development and evaluation of a rural school district's reading curriculum is examined with a discussion of po...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

New Principal Mentoring

In five pages this paper examines mentoring programs for school principals and their objectives Seven sources are cited in the bi...

Taking on Hepatitis B in a Philadelphia High School

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

After-School Programs

providing encouragement and praise, reinforcing expectations consistently, and handling broken ground rules in a firm but not hars...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Washington Elementary School

the proposal. It became part of the districts strategic plan as an indicator of success. The board supported this goal with $500,0...

Six T's of Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington

This essay pertains to the six categories of elementary instruction that were discerned from an extensive study of some of the bes...

Human Services in Charlotte, NC

(Curtis, 2007). The League also runs four other philanthropic programs, which try to provide what these children need, "from tutor...

Elementary School and the IEP Approach

In twelve pages the IEP educational approach is evaluated in terms of its success in the elementary school classroom with the conc...

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

School Revenue Issues

educational goals and objectives continue to increase; 2. communities are constantly demanding more and better services from the s...