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a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

from written texts based on a complex coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information" and is considered as "the m...

that are more than apparent in his surrounding community, successfully overlooking a persons skin color or lack of education as a ...

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

racial minority or ethnic groups. The following illustration provides a picture of the diversity (Newman, 1998, p. 231). The numb...

(Phillips, 1998). The 1991 census revealed that the minority ethnic population totaled 3 million, which represented 5.5 percent of...

those who constantly raise their hands. To their way of thinking they are either readers or non-readers. Encisco states that inter...

In two and a half pages this paper assesses the benefits of both phonics and whole language teaching with regards to reading instr...

development cannot be "taught", they are the result of a collaborative effort and social conditions (The Philosophies of Lev Vygot...

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

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

difficult to discern whether systematic feedback, metacognitive knowledge ... or the combination of feedback and metacognitive kno...

in teaching (Baker, 2005). Using NLP "will enable us to uncover the basis of our perceptions and so teach us how we think and lear...

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

in fact, taught to read using phonics. They just misassociate the term with some new social movement or some other great mystery ...

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

predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...

say "no" and plenty who will say it is an essential component for assisting a child in learning to read. Origins of the Concept of...

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

This paper addresses various approaches to learning styles among advanced-level students. The author discusses techniques for tea...

In fifteen pages this paper presents a literature analysis that focuses upon various educational approaches to the teaching of wri...

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

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

best instilled at a young age. Elementary and teachers have what amounts to an almost moral obligation to assure that the children...

In nine pages this paper discusses how to teach children how to read in an assessment of the strenghts and weaknesses of phonic an...

In five pages each of five scholarly articles on this academic topic are summarized and critically analyzed. Five sources are cit...

the other student takes the role of teacher and offers suggestions and feedback (Richards, 2000). Another method for introducing t...

sound components of a word and so can break a word down by sounds (NRP, 2000; Kamii and Manning, 2002). The following is a classr...

good readers, reading is not a guessing game and that the grapho-phonemic or letter-sound information should be the first element ...