Strategic Keyword Instruction: Increasing Fluency in Connected Expository Text
Abstract The effects of preteaching key words on fluency in connected text were examined with three third-grade general education participants. Researchers used a multiple base-line design (i.e.,...
View ArticleThe Teaching of Reading and Its New Emphasis
Abstract Teachers and supervisors of reading instruction need to stay abreast of trends and concerns when assisting pupils to achieve more optimally. Reading which meets high expectations is needed in...
View ArticleA Study of Summer School Enrichment Program in High-Poverty Urban Public...
Abstract This study aims to document whether the summer school program had impact on student achievement and differences in students' reading achievement scores and students' responses regarding their...
View ArticlePrincipals' Perceptions of the Effectiveness and Necessity of Reading Coaches...
Abstract Reading coaches have become a strategic tool to impact student achievement in elementary schools. Understanding the effectiveness and the necessity of coaches is critical as schools are facing...
View ArticleThe Predictive Utility of DIBELS Reading Assessment for Reading Comprehension...
Abstract The study addresses the extent to which subtests on the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Reading Assessment (DIBELS; Good & Kaminski, 2002) predict student success on a...
View ArticleStudying Grammar in the Technological Age
Abstract When being a student in grade school as well as in high school (1934-1946), grammar was heavily emphasized in English/language arts classes, particularly in grades four through the senior year...
View ArticleReading Fluency Interventions for Middle School Students with Academic and...
Abstract The research base on how to effectively intervene to improve the reading fluency of students with academic and behavioral disabilities at the middle school level does not provide a strong...
View ArticleLeveled Reading and Engagement with Complex Texts
Abstract The benefits of engaging with age-appropriate reading materials in classroom settings are numerous. For example, students' comprehension is developed as they acquire new vocabulary and...
View ArticleVarying Readability of Science-Based Text in Elementary Readers: Challenges...
This investigation compared readability formulae to publishers' identified reading levels in science-based elementary readers. Nine well-established readability indices were calculated and comparisons...
View ArticleEffective Ways to Promote Word Power with Students
Most of us recall with pain the unpleasant experiences associated with the teacher's announcement that we would once again initiate a unit of learning designed to both widen and deepen our knowledge of...
View ArticleTeaching Digital Natives: Promoting Information Literacy and Addressing...
Technology must be used as a teaching and learning tool to help students succeed. However, educators must be proactive in identifying some of the pitfalls of technology, such as information illiteracy....
View ArticleTurn off the Television and Read
Aaron (2005) described the "family as the nation's smallest school" and "the home as the first school." Furthermore, studies document that 90% of the differences in academic achievement can be...
View ArticleI'm Not Joking. but Maybe I Should Start?
ABSTRACT You've been teaching for years. Your evaluations have always been good, but lately things are stagnant. Student satisfaction with your teaching is decreasing and you feel your classes are...
View ArticleRereading Information Sources-The Textbook
Abstract Reading textbook information has been done too superficially in the past. More time needs to be given to its indepth comprehension. Thus, a new emphasis in reading has come about. What was...
View ArticleA Review of Fixed Fluency Criteria in Repeated Reading Studies
Abstract Introduced in the early 1970s, repeated reading has a history of helping students build oral reading fluency spanning almost 40 years. Participants in original repeated reading studies had to...
View ArticleSchool Leadership and Counselors Working Together to Address Bullying
School bullying remains a serious issue although it has been the subject of national news, government agencies, schools and community organizations since the school shootings at Columbine. School...
View ArticleBalanced Literacy and the Underperforming English Learner in High School
Balanced literacy has been proposed as a compromise or middle ground between philosophical approaches to reading instruction that stress teaching of word recognition and those that stress construction...
View ArticleA Comparison of Direct Instruction and Balanced Literacy: An Evaluative...
Literacy instruction is once again at the forefront of school reform throughout North America. Numerous federal and state initiatives in the United States, such as Reading First and Response to...
View ArticleReading Makes Youngsters Smarter about Sustainability
Think about your favorite children's book. What impact did it have on you? Besides the immediate enjoyment of the book, did it have any long-term impact? Silvey (2009) wrote Everything I Need to Know 1...
View ArticleAmerica's Children: Providing Early Exposure to Stem (Science, Technology,...
Recent attention has been brought to light in the United States regarding low numbers of students pursing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines and degree programs (National...
View ArticleAn Examination of Preservice Teachers' View of Multiliteracies: Habits,...
This research study examined the values and perceptions of prospective teachers relative to a series of issues in what has become known as the New Literacies, the way youngsters read, seek information,...
View ArticleUsing Puppets as Story Props for Read-Alouds: Addressing Reading/learning Styles
This article describes the Mother Phonics program as implemented at the Augusta University Literacy Center. A description of the program as well as the Center's facility is offered. The daily schedule...
View ArticleSupplemental Computerized Reading Instruction in Oral Reading Fluency and Its...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a supplemental repeated reading intervention delivered through a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program on the oral reading fluency...
View ArticleELLs' Perceptions of Reading
This research investigated reading support and book preferences of fourth grade English language learners (ELLs) who were struggling readers. This qualitative research focused on three case studies....
View ArticleImproving Pre-Kindergarten Children's Attitude and Interest in Reading...
This study sought to determine if, by providing parents with a workshop on the use of dialogic reading techniques during the storybook reading event in the home, Pre-Kindergarten children's attitude...
View ArticleEnhancing Preservice Teachers' Skillsets and Professionalism through Literacy...
This qualitative study explores preservice teachers' experiences in a service-learning literacy tutoring program offered at a university with children in grades one through eight. This study examines...
View ArticleDetermining the Effectiveness of Audio-Recording Method in the Treatment of...
The current study has been conducted to improve the reading disability of the subject 'F' who is a 3rd grade primary school student. The study consists of detection, diagnosis and treatment stages and...
View ArticleSimple Texts, Complex Questions: Helping Young Children Generate Questions
As they are naturally curious about the world around them, young children ask lots and lots of questions. In classrooms today, however, there seems to be little space for these student-generated...
View ArticleThe Effect of Summary Writing on Reading Comprehension: The Role of Mediation...
Reading teachers focus more on the instruction of reading content or strategies, but pay relatively less attention to the impact of writing on reading comprehension. Based on mediation theory, the...
View ArticleExcessive Testing and Pupils in the Public Schools
This article explores the question excessive testing in public schools, its value in the educational process, and the impact that excessive testing may have on the student and the family unit. While...
View ArticleRead-Alouds in the Classroom: A Pilot Study of Teachers' Self-Reporting...
As instructors of preservice teachers both researchers have spent time in classrooms observing the reading block. Teacher read alouds were observed and a disconcerting occurrence became apparent to...
View ArticleEffects of Repeated Reading and Listening Passage Preview on Oral Reading...
This case study examined the effectiveness of three fluency interventions (i.e., repeated reading, audio listening passage preview and teacher modeled listening passage preview) with a fifth grade...
View ArticleTeaching Literacy to English Language Learners in the Borderlands: A Case...
Teachers can expect to have English language learners in their classrooms, and many may not feel prepared to help ELL students meet the academic demands of school (Fu, 2004; Hansom-Thomas &...
View ArticleUsing a Written Journal Technique to Enhance Inquiry-Based Reflection about...
Introduction "It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." --Albert Einstein Educator preparation programs have...
View ArticleHow Did They Maximize Learning for All of Those Students?
Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine common characteristics in teacher practice that positively impact student learning in reading and mathematics. The research attempts to determine how...
View ArticleTeachers' Knowledge of Children's Literature: What Genres Do Teachers Read?
Method This study examines teachers' knowledge of children's book titles in two public elementary schools in a southeastern state. Of the 630 students in the first school, approximately 68% are White,...
View ArticleThe Analysis of the Level of Students' Perception of the Messages in Fictive...
Introduction Mother language acquisition is defined as the process of one's getting acquaintance of the socio-cultural life and realizing oneself within this environment (Saussure, 1998). In this...
View ArticleTransformations in Graduate Education Majors' Relational Care in a...
"Listen with your heart. But, remember listening with your heart sometimes means you cannot sleep at night because you are worried about your students" (Education majors' e-mail reflection following...
View ArticleAdapting Self-Selected Reading Practices for College-Level Developmental...
Reading comprehension and fluency issues are the most significant challenges facing adult, developmental reading students in community colleges. While a great deal of focus has been on improving...
View ArticleCurriculum, Which Direction Are We Going?
There are a plethora of directions in which the curriculum might move, such as being subject centered versus being activity centered. Each must be appraised in terms of approved standards in assisting...
View Article12 Texts That Facilitate Authentic Reading Strategies for Novice,...
Common reading fluency strategies facilitated in classrooms across the nation include repeated, timed, and echo reading within prescribed reading programs. Although strategies stress fluency,...
View ArticleTutoring Students to Achieve Objectives in Reading
Presently, funds are available for tutoring pupils who qualify under federal guidelines. Specially approved tutors then are available to help pupils. What should be the qualifications for tutoring...
View ArticleFamily Literacy Packs: Preservice Teachers' Experiences with Family-School...
Literacy Project Description The literacy project centered on university preservice teachers creating literacy backpacks. Literacy backpacks, or literacy bags (Barbour, 1998), were created to...
View ArticleCase Study on the Effect of Word Repetition Method Supported by Neurological...
Introduction Reading difficulty is a difficulty experienced by a student during reading due to failing to have gained any of the necessary reading skills or the difficulty faced in reading any text in...
View ArticleDeath as Insight into Life: Adolescents' Gothic Text Encounters
"Well I like reading about dead bodies. I'm weird like that," Eliza (all names are pseudonyms) sheepishly admitted to me during an initial interview when I asked her about favorite reading topics....
View ArticleOutcome Expectancy in Literacy: Is Average Good Enough?
Introduction and Purpose of Study "I'm a science teacher; I can't help anyone learn to read." "If they don't know how to read by now, there's nothing I can do to help them read their history book."...
View ArticleTutors Can Improve Students' Reading Skills
One of the oldest forms of instruction is the process of tutoring and, according to Gordon, Morgan, Ponticell, & O'Malley (2004); it has been around longer than the common form of school that is...
View ArticleQuantity, Quality, and Readability of Online Information for College Students...
An estimated one in 68 children meets diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Approximately half of the population...
View ArticleOral Reading Fluency with Ipods
Literacy educators realize that for children to be successful readers, they must be fluent and comprehend a range of texts. The National Reading Panel (National Institute of Child Health and Human...
View ArticlePrep: Primary Reading Engagement Program
How do teachers motivate primary students who experience difficulty when reading? Strategies to encourage reading motivation are complex and command a structured and ongoing approach. It is imperative...
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