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The Effects of Differentiated Instruction on Academic Achievement of Struggling Second Grade Readers
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McCullough, Shirley M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The educational system has an increasing population of students with diverse learning needs that must be addressed to ensure all students are academically successful. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether differentiated instruction had a positive effect on the vocabulary and the reading comprehension of struggling 2nd grade…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Making and Writing Words: Constructivist Word Learning in a Second-Grade Classroom
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Rasinski, Timothy; Oswald, Ruth – Reading and Writing Quarterly, 2005
This study examined the effects of Making and Writing Words (MWW), a variation of the Making Words word study activity by Cunningham and Cunningham (1992), on second-grade students word learning. MWW was implemented daily with a group of second-grade students' over a five-month period. Results indicated that students who received the MWW treatment…
Descriptors: Phonics, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Instruction, Grade 2
Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3
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Vaughn, Sharon; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
Get your reading program on the right track using research-based teaching strategies from this helpful guide. Learn what you need to know about five essential elements of reading, why you should teach them, and how. A treasure chest of research-based instructional activities helps you: (1) Build students phonemic awareness; (2) Teach phonics and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Methods, Phonemics