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Elfrieda H. Hiebert – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Automaticity in recognizing the words in a text is fundamental to comprehension. If the number of words readers need to stop and decode exceeds their ability to retain their understanding of a narrative's plot or an expository text's description, their comprehension suffers. The conventional intervention for students who lack the automaticity to…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Tyrone Cummings – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The causal-comparative research study examined if academic achievement differs between African American 8th-grade students in schools where they constitute the majority versus the minority in Clarendon County, South Carolina. The research questions investigated 8th-grade African American students' academic performance in English Language Arts and…
Descriptors: Grade 8, African American Students, Measurement, Predominantly White Institutions