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Helsloot, Angela – Research-publishing.net, 2022
In this case study, Angela Helsloot, Principal at Allambie Heights Public School, on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, uses data from standardised tests and benchmark reading assessments across the school to show the positive impact that Sounds-Write instruction has had in Kindergarten and Year 1. [For the complete volume, "Systematic Synthetic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Standardized Tests, Benchmarking, Reading Tests
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Mtshali, Zanele; Mashiya, Nontokozo – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2022
Background: Teaching English as home language (EHL) could be a complicated process in a country like South Africa, where there are eleven official languages operating in a multicultural society. This requires capacitating teachers with appropriate and relevant strategies to strengthen their teaching, especially in the foundation phase. Aim: This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
White, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Eighteen students in a Southern Suburban first grade class will participate in this case study. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Saxon Phonics instruction in increasing reading achievement in elementary students. Students will take part in focus groups where they discuss books they read and why they enjoy reading…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Suburban Schools, Elementary School Students, Phonics
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Wall, Candace A.; Rafferty, Lisa A.; Camizzi, Mariya A.; Max, Caroline A.; Van Blargan, David M. – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Many students who struggle to obtain the alphabetic principle are at risk for being identified as having a reading disability and would benefit from additional explicit phonics instruction as a remedial measure. In this action research case study, the research team conducted two experiments to investigate the effects of a color-coded, onset-rime,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Decoding (Reading), Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Guardino, Caroline; Syverud, Susan M.; Joyner, Amy; Nicols, Heather; King, Sarah – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
The effectiveness of phonological instruction with 6 deaf students in an oral program was investigated. In a previous investigation (Syverud, Guardino, & Selznick, 2009), promising results had been obtained in a case study in which the Direct Instruction curriculum titled "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" (Engelmann, Haddox, & Bruner,…
Descriptors: Deafness, Phonology, Phonics, Reading Instruction
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Girgin, Ümit – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Problem Statement: Utilization of shared reading practice in hearing impaired children's literacy instruction may yield quite beneficial. However an investigation of Turkish literature revealed no studies regarding application of shared reading within elementary settings for hearing or hearing-impaired children. Furthermore international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
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Ainsworth, Mary Taylor; Ortlieb, Evan; Cheek, Earl H., Jr.; Pate, Roberta Simnacher; Fetters, Carol – Language and Education, 2012
A teacher's role was dramatically changed from that of an educator to that of a facilitator with the adoption of semi-scripted curriculums. This case study explores teachers' perception and implementation of a state's English Language Arts curriculum in first-grade classrooms. Four first-grade teachers from a large urban school district were…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Arts, Classrooms, Literacy Education
Robinson, Isaac, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reading skills for African American male students in Grades 4 and 8 have improved over the past decade. However, a significant reading achievement gap still exists between African American male students and their European American counterparts. The purpose, as well as the central…
Descriptors: Social Change, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Lucia Y. Lu – International Education Studies, 2010
Clay's Reading Recovery has been one of the most effective one-to-one tutorial sessions. To make the daily lesson more interesting and fully engage the at-risk readers, the author modified Clay's Reading Recovery Program by conceptualizing phonics and semiotics into early intervention. In this case study, three at-risk first graders formed an…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Phonics, Semiotics, Tutoring
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Kotaman, Huseyin; Tekin, Ali Kemal; Tekin, Gokce – Reading Improvement, 2007
In Turkey, the Ministry of National Education (MONE) changed the reading instruction method in elementary schools from whole language approach to phonics emphasis in 2005. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of phonics method on reading acquisition in a Turkish sample; to understand what elementary school teachers…
Descriptors: Phonics, Whole Language Approach, Foreign Countries, Grade 1