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Begeny, John C.; Martens, Brian K. – School Psychology Review, 2006
Nearly 40% of America's fourth-grade students are below the basic level in reading. Creating opportunities for practice to build reading accuracy and speed (i.e., fluency) is an important link between word decoding and passage comprehension. The purpose of this study was to combine several empirically validated reading interventions into an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Standardized Tests, Reading Improvement
Ntenza, S. Philemon – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
Recent changes in mathematics curricula, both in South Africa and elsewhere, have begun to change the overwhelmingly symbolic nature of mathematics in schools (in the sense of use of mathematical symbolism), promoting more use of the oral and written language. Engaging students in "Writing-to-Learn" activities in mathematics classrooms…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Written Language
Jones, Jill A. – Childhood Education, 2006
Effective educators plan reading instruction by considering all of the contributing variables: the students' background knowledge, cultural heritages, oral language, strengths and needs, home influences, as well as the current educational environment and the type of text (expository, narrative ...). Each variable is powerful and could easily…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Reading Teachers, Oral Language, Reading Instruction
Lee, Yong-Won – Language Testing, 2006
A multitask speaking measure consisting of both integrated and independent tasks is expected to be an important component of a new version of the TOEFL test. This study considered two critical issues concerning score dependability of the new speaking measure: How much would the score dependability be impacted by (1) combining scores on different…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Generalizability Theory
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Dialogic Reading" is an interactive shared picture book reading practice designed to enhance young children's language and literacy skills. During the shared reading practice, the adult and the child switch roles so that the child learns to become the storyteller with the assistance of the adult who functions as an active listener and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Intervention, Preschool Children, Picture Books
Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
If you ever have students who are reluctant to tell you when they don't understand something--or worse, tell you they understand when they really don't--then here's a book that gives you lots of ways to check for understanding. Learn why typical methods to check for understanding are usually ineffective. And explore formative assessment techniques…
Descriptors: Test Items, Student Evaluation, Student Reaction, Formative Evaluation
Strucker, John; Yamamoto, Kentaro; Kirsch, Irwin – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2007
This study's aim was to understand the relationship of the component skills of reading, such as word recognition, vocabulary, and spelling, to large-scale measures of literacy, such as the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) (Kirsch, Jungleblut, Jenkins, & Kolstad, 1993) and the closely related International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Spelling, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Comprehension
Rosemary, Catherine A.; Roskos, Kathleen A.; Landreth, Leslie K. – Guilford Publications, 2007
This highly practical guide is grounded in the authors' experience setting up and running a successful professional development program to improve K-3 reading instruction. The book systematically describes how professional development works: how sessions are organized, what they contain, routines and procedures, and the roles of each participant.…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Early Childhood Education, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
Bromley, Karen – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
Vocabulary knowledge contributes to comprehension, fluency, and student achievement. The goal of vocabulary instruction should be to build students' independent word-learning strategies. This article provides research and theory in support of nine key ideas about words and vocabulary instruction. These ideas are important for middle and secondary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English Instruction, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Elbaum, Batya – Journal of Special Education, 2007
This study compared the performance of students with and without learning disabilities (LD) on a mathematics test using a standard administration procedure and a read-aloud accommodation. Analyses were conducted on the test scores of 625 middle and high school students (n = 388 with LD) on two equivalent 30-item multiple-choice tests. Whereas mean…
Descriptors: Scores, Mathematics Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Learning Disabilities
Mendes, Jackeline Rodrigues – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
This paper presents the results of a study developed in the context of indigenous teachers education from Xingu Indian Park, Brazil. The indigenous bilingual (or multilingual in some cases) teachers that participated in this education program were from 14 ethnic groups. The research focused on a mathematics textbook production, written in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Publication, Bilingualism, Indigenous Populations
Bateman, David F. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2007
Anna is a 13-year-old student who has a learning disability and is eligible for special education and related services. Anna's parents enrolled her in the Private Academy for fifth grade; her frustration, inappropriate behaviors, and inattention had increased during fourth grade. In its year-end report, the Private Academy described Anna's…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Civil Rights, Individualized Education Programs, Compensatory Education
Burnaby, Barbara; Philpott, David – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
In light of a major study on educational outcomes, this paper explores how Aboriginal language dominance and virtually exclusive use of oral communications in one Aboriginal group has been affected by its interaction with Western institutions. For several years negotiations have been undertaken among the Innu Nation of Labrador, the province of…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Canada Natives, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Rubdy, Rani – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
In the Singlish-"Good" English debate, the use of Singlish (SCE) is viewed as an obstacle to the development of students' literacy skills in standard English (SSE) and so the practice of classroom codeswitching between the two varieties is strongly discouraged. Yet the presence of the vernacular in the classroom continues to be robust.…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Ozeki, Hiromi; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Although Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) has been shown to predict the difficulty order of relative clauses (RCs) in SLA, most studies of the NPAH have been on European languages. This paper tests the prediction for Japanese. Study 1 analyzes RCs in an oral interview corpus from 90 learners of Japanese at four…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers