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Presents questions commonly asked about promoting lifetime literacy efforts. Importance of lifetime literacy; Resources for encouraging the love of reading; Presentation of support strategies motivating children to read for pleasure.
- A `flurry of activity'. Long, Richard // Reading Today;Dec93/Jan94, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p6
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- Professional resources. // Reading Today;Apr/May98, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p20
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- Will it take content literacy to ensure implementation? Rafferty, Cathleen D. // Contemporary Education;1994, Vol. 65 Issue 2, p82
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- Teaching and learning to read. Sweet, Anne P. // Education Digest;Sep94, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p52
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- Increasing literacy--strategically. Shields, Jean // Curriculum Administrator;May99, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p45
Explores strategies in teaching students how to read. Debates over the type of literacy environment suitable for students; Characteristics of teachers who were successful in fostering literacy; Motivational strategies.
- Literacy practices in dark times: A reflective memoir. Yoon, Jun-Chae // Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy;Dec2001/Jan2002, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p290
Presents a reflective memoir of a graduate student on reading and its role in an oppressive regime in South Korea. Description of two years of literacy practice in oppressive times with theoretical analysis; Literacy practices in relation to a historical event in South Korea; Significance of...
- The views of Non-American decoding skills researchers: A small-sample study (N = 1). Byrne, Brian // Issues in Education;1999, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p59
Presents the views of non-American decoding skills researchers on the question of what is the proper subject matter of reading instruction research. Decoding skills researchers' use of different techniques in literacy research; Two errors committed by decoding skills researchers.
- Where do we go from here in early literacy research and practice. Morrow, Lesley Mandel // Issues in Education;1999, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p117
Discusses other strategies for early literacy development other than those mentioned in the essay by Michael Pressley and Richard Arlington. Acquisition of literacy before a child enters school; Utilization of a broad perspective in early literacy development; Meaning based storybook reading...
- Concluding reflections: What should reading instructional research be the research of? Pressley, Michael; Allington, Richard // Issues in Education;1999, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p165
Cites seven scientific points and curricular issues related to reading instruction. Emphasis on weak reading and ineffective reading instruction; Need for literacy development problems to be studied in long-term developmental investigations; Importance of careful analyses of instructional contexts.
