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Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Tortorelli, Laura S. – Elementary School Journal, 2022
Texts classified according to guided reading levels (GRL) are ubiquitous in US beginning reading classrooms. This study examined features of texts across three grade bands (kindergarten, early first grade, final first grade) and the 10 GRLs within these bands. The 510 texts came from three programs with different functions in beginning reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Young-Suk Grace Kim; Karen R. Harris; Rebecca Goldstone; April Camping; Steve Graham – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2025
Purpose: We conducted a randomized control trial of an instructional program, SRSD Plus, which integrates reading for writing to inform, writing, oral language, spelling and handwriting for students in Grades 1 and 2. Method: A total of 10 teachers and their 248 students in Grade 1 (n = 121) and Grade 2 (n = 127) in the southwestern part of the US…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Grade 1
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Mathura, Shivona; Zulu, Free-Queen B. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2021
Background: English Second Language (ESL) learners have difficulty constructing sentences due to internalising information in their home language and thereafter translating it into English. Learners who have difficulty speaking English generally encounter problems writing it, which hampers their creative writing ability. Objectives: The purpose of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Adkins, Mary – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The impact of supplemental handwriting and spelling instruction on learning to write was examined in an experimental study with first grade students who were not acquiring these skills as rapidly as their classmates. Thirty students (16 boys, 14 girls) were randomly assigned to a handwriting and spelling instructional condition or a phonological…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Spelling Instruction, Phonological Awareness, Accuracy
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Fitzgerald, Jill; Elmore, Jeff; Koons, Heather; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Bowen, Kimberly; Sanford-Moore, Eleanor E.; Stenner, A. Jackson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The Common Core set a standard for all children to read increasingly complex texts throughout schooling. The purpose of the present study was to explore text characteristics specifically in relation to early-grades text complexity. Three hundred fifty primary-grades texts were selected and digitized. Twenty-two text characteristics were identified…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Difficulty Level, Instructional Material Evaluation, Primary Education
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Foucambert, Denis; Baille, Jacques – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
In light of the numerous studies on the detection of target letters among adults, it is generally accepted that the missing-letter effect depends both on a given word's frequency in its language and on its role (function vs. content) in a sentence. Following a presentation of several models explaining these observations we analyze the results of a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Word Recognition
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Berninger, Virginia W.; Nagy, William; Beers, Scott – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Children in grades one to four completed two sentence construction tasks: (a) Write one complete sentence about a topic prompt (sentence integrity, Study 1); and (b) Integrate two sentences into one complete sentence without changing meaning (sentence combining, Study 2). Most, but not all, children in first through fourth grade could write just…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Sentences, Writing (Composition), Spelling
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Silber, Jennifer M.; Martens, Brian K. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2010
This study compared a multiple exemplar approach involving the training of key words and sentence structures to a typical repeated readings procedure for their effects on students' generalized oral reading fluency. The two training approaches were also compared in terms of their relative learning rates (i.e., fluency gain per minute of instruction…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Research Design, Reading Fluency, Attention Control
Rog, Lori Jamison – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2007
This practical resource provides 40 research-based, classroom tested, and developmentally appropriate minilessons for kindergarten through grade 3--presented in the context of authentic writing experiences. Teachers can use these lessons to teach students how to: (1) Generate and organize ideas before writing, and then turn their prewriting ideas…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Teaching Methods, Spelling, Sentence Structure
Gross, Paul R. – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2005
The mission of this review is to appraise the new draft NAEP science framework and to determine whether it is up to snuff. This is an evaluation of the September 30, 2005, draft document, Science Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (Framework), developed for the National Assessment Governing Board. The criteria is…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, National Competency Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Science Instruction
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Chiappe, Penny; Chiappe, Dan L.; Gottardo, Alexandra – Educational Psychology, 2004
This study examined the interaction between speech perception and sentential context among 13 poor readers and 49 good readers in grades one to three. Children's performance was examined on tasks assessing expressive and receptive vocabulary, reading skill, phonological awareness, pseudoword repetition, and phoneme identification. Good readers…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes, Identification