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Engaging First Graders in Transformational Early Childhood Emergent Learning Themes
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Pendergrass, Amanda Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to encourage learners to care for others and make a difference in the world through Reggio Emilia-inspired teaching and learning practice that promoted transformational education. Students were anticipated to take an active role in helping to develop the transformational educational curriculum.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Emergent Literacy
The Relations among School Status Variables, Teacher Academic and Arts Curricular Emphases, and Student Academic Achievement in Grades 1, 3, and 5
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Neddeau, Browning – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The National Center of Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) data were used to explore the curricular emphasis in schools of varying socioeconomic status in both public and private schools. Data collected between 1998 and 2003 were used in the secondary analyses of curricular emphasis in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5
The Effects of Video Self-Modeling on the Decoding Skills of Children at Risk for Reading Disabilities
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Ayala, Sandra M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Ten first grade students, participating in a Tier II response to intervention (RTI) reading program received an intervention of video self modeling to improve decoding skills and sight word recognition. The students were video recorded blending and segmenting decodable words, and reading sight words taken directly from their curriculum…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Grade 1
Daily Practices Elementary Principals Utilize to Increase Student Reading Achievement: A Case Study of Successful Michigan Elementary Schools
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Johnson, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This case study examined three K-5 schools, one 3-5 school, and two K-2 schools that implemented Michigan's Behavior and Learning Support Initiative (MiBLSi) and showed improvement trends in third grade reading achievement as measured by MEAP results over four years. Each of the six schools completed the three years of MiBLSi training and are…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Focus Groups, Reading Achievement, Leadership Effectiveness
The Ability of Oral Fluency to Predict Reading Comprehension among ELL Children Learning to Read
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Millett, Joseph Ridge – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current study analyzed existing data, collected under a previous U.S. Department of Education Reading First grant, to investigate the strength of the relationship between scores on the first- through third-grade Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills-Oral Reading Fluency (DIBELS-ORF) test and scores on a reading comprehension test…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, Second Language Learning
Primary Teacher Literacy Preparation and Practices in New York State Elementary Schools at Diverse Levels of Achievement and Need
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Sterne, Phyllis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the issues of elementary teacher preparation for teaching literacy and teacher preparation for teaching literacy to diverse populations. This study contrasted primary teachers' literacy preparation and practice in high, middle, and low achieving and high, average, and low need schools in New York State.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teacher Education, Comprehension