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The Effects of Explicit Instruction of Expository Text Structure Incorporating Graphic Organizers on the Comprehension of Third-Grade Students
(2007-08-20)
An important goal of education is to assist students to read and write expository text. Success in school, work, and society depends largely upon the ability to comprehend this type of text. However, there is ample research ...
READING RECOVERY CHILDREN AND EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT: INVESTIGATION INTO PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, ORTHOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE, ORAL READING PROCESSING, AND READING COMPREHENSION PROCESSING
(2005-08-29)
Marie Clay (1993) designed Reading Recovery tutoring to accelerate the early literacy development of low-performing, six-year-old children so that they achieve average levels of classroom performance. Approximately one ...
Urban Fourth and Fifth Grade Teachers' Reading Attitudes and Efficacy Beliefs: Relationships to Reading Instruction and to Students' Attitudes and Efficacy Beliefs
(2004-04-30)
Research on children's attitudes toward reading and reader self-efficacy indicates that they both are aspects of reading motivation and relate to achievement in reading. Additional research suggests that teachers' attitudes ...
Intersections of Vision, Practice, and Context in the Development of Student Teachers as Reading Teachers for Students of Diverse Backgrounds
(2007-11-26)
The well-documented achievement gap and common cultural mismatch between teachers and their students underscore the need for culturally responsive teachers. Students of diverse backgrounds need teachers whose visions of ...
Strategy Awareness-Raising for Success: Reading Strategy Instruction in the EFL Context
(2007-04-26)
Researchers and educators have made great efforts to be conscious of students' wide and varied learning processes and to meet individual learners' different needs in one classroom with well-conceptualized and balanced ...
Beyond Storytime: Whole Class Interactive Reading Aloud in Kindergarten
(2009)
Existing research has established the value of reading aloud to young children and suggested a lens with three elements to describe when a teacher reads aloud to an entire kindergarten class during a planned period of ...
EXCELLENT TEACHING OF LITERACY IN AN URBAN SCHOOL: INCLUDING NEW LITERACIES AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
(2007-08-20)
This is a single case study of an excellent teacher of literacy in an urban school. The study examines and exposes the practices and pedagogy this teacher possesses in order to assist students as they become literate ...
Class Advantage: Social Class and Knowledge Production In Classrooms Under The New Accountability
(2005-04-20)
ABSTRACT
Title of Dissertation: CLASS ADVANTAGE: SOCIAL CLASS AND
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN
ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS UNDER THE
NEW ACCOUNTABILITY
Philbert Aaron, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005
Dissertation directed ...
How Six Fourth Graders Experienced and Understood Literacy Events During One Year in a Quality School Library
(2006-08-23)
In this one year study, I employed a "childist" lens (Hunt, 1991) to discover how six fourth grade students experienced and understood literacy events in a quality school library program. To locate a quality setting, I ...
How Seventh Grade Readers Who Completed An Intensive Phonics Intervention Program in Sixth Grade Comprehend Informational Text
(2007-11-28)
The purpose of this study was to explore the processes by which seventh grade readers who completed an intensive phonics intervention program in sixth grade comprehend informational text. The informational text chosen for ...