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Successful Strategies Used to Increase the Reading Comprehension of Second Grade Students
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Reda, Patricia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A southeastern elementary school evidenced many students with a consistent decrease in oral reading fluency (ORF) rates as the 2nd grade year progressed, leading to weakness in reading comprehension in the 3rd grade. Reading comprehension is critical for academic success, as students who merely decode words do not gain knowledge from the text.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
The Boston Opportunity Agenda: Fifth Annual Report Card
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Boston Foundation, 2016
This fifth annual "Boston Opportunity Agenda Report Card" provides the most up-to-date information available on Boston's education pipeline, from kindergarten through college graduation, including measures for school readiness, 3rd grade reading proficiency, 10th-grade academic proficiency, high school completion, dropout rates, college…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Public Schools
Statewide Indicators of Educational System Health: 2014 Report to the Legislature
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Washington State Board of Education, 2014
This report is in response to the requirement of RCW 28A.150.550 that the State Board of Education, with assistance from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (WTECB), the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee (EOGOAC), and the Washington…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, School Effectiveness, State Programs
Summer Reading Loss: A Mixed-Methods Study of Parent Development and Home-Based Summer Reading
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Blanton, Morgan V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation utilized a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental design to investigate the impact of parent development on rising third graders' summer reading losses as measured by the difference in May and August oral reading fluency scores. Title I parents and students from three schools in a rural North Carolina school district participated in a…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Quasiexperimental Design, Parent Education, Grade 3
Teachers Engaging Parents as Tutors to Improve Oral Reading Fluency
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Kupzyk, Sara S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examined the application of evidence-based tutoring for oral reading fluency (ORF) to a natural setting, using teachers as parent trainers. Measures used to determine the impact of parent tutoring included treatment integrity, student reading outcomes, attitudes towards involvement and reading, and social validity. Six teachers…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Teaching Methods
Bridging Cultures through Literacy. The Thirty-Seventh Yearbook: A Double Peer-Reviewed Publication of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers
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Vasinda, Sheri, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2015
The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension, Common Core State Standards