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Gilbert, Darryl L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Reading teachers are faced with the challenge of providing instruction to a population of diverse students with various abilities and styles of learning within local and state school districts. In an effort to improve student performance on high-stake examinations in reading, teachers continue to seek the most effective instructional strategies.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Strategies, Program Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction
Harte, Helene Arbouet – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study examines perspectives of parents of children with autism related to engagement in the home environment. Increased engagement decreases the likelihood of less productive behaviors. Investigation of engagement in the home setting may provide insights into the development of interventions. Collaboration between parents and…
Descriptors: Autism, Musical Instruments, Family Environment, Teaching Methods
Karacalik, Mary – Mathematics Teaching, 2009
For years this author has been a keen advocate of co-operative talk as a way of learning and has felt confident that her pupils are learning from each other. She creates opportunities for her Year two class to talk and work in pairs and groups across the curriculum, with many such interactions occurring each day. As part of an action research…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Classroom Communication, Verbal Communication
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Ekiss, Gale Olp; Trapido-Lurie, Barbara; Phillips, Judy; Hinde, Elizabeth – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
Maps and mapping activities are essential in the primary grades. Maps are truly ubiquitous today, as evidenced by the popularity of websites such as Google Earth and Mapquest, and by devices such as Global Positioning System (GPS) units in cars, planes, and boats. Maps can give visual settings to travel stories and historical narratives and can…
Descriptors: Geography, Maps, Social Studies, Elementary Education
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Sipe, Lawrence R.; Brightman, Anne E. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
This article reports on a study of the responses of a second-grade class to the page breaks in contemporary picturebooks. In a picturebook, the text and accompanying illustrations are divided into a series of facing pages called openings, and the divisions between the openings are called page breaks or turns. Unlike a novel, in which the page…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Inferences, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Maestas, Gary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem investigated in this research study relates to the referral rate for special education evaluations between students of teachers who were exposed to the professional development and resources associated with the federally funded Reading First program and students of teachers who were not exposed to the program. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Research Design, Lunch Programs, Program Effectiveness, Multivariate Analysis
Slavin, Robert E.; Lake, Cynthia; Davis, Susan; Madden, Nancy A. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2010
This guide summarizes "Effective Programs for Struggling Readers: A Best Evidence Synthesis," a research review conducted by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Research and Reform in Education. The purpose of the review was to evaluate the achievement outcomes of alternative approaches for struggling readers in grade K-5: (1) one-to-one…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Tutoring, Educational Technology, Phonetics
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Fudge, Daniel L.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Williams, Jacqueline L.; Cowden, Dan; Clark, Janice; Bliss, Stacy L. – Journal of School Psychology, 2008
A single-case (B-C-B-C) experimental design was used to evaluate the effects of the Color Wheel classroom management system (CWS) on on-task (OT) behavior in an intact, general-education, 2nd-grade classroom during transitions. The CWS included three sets of rules, posted cues to indicate the rules students are expected to be following at that…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Research Design, Cues, Data Analysis
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Williams, Cheri; Phillips-Birdsong, Colleen; Hufnagel, Krissy; Hungler, Diane; Lundstrom, Ruth P. – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article describes nine tips for implementing a word study program in the K-2 classroom. These tips are based on the results of four classroom-based qualitative research projects collaboratively conducted by a university professor and four primary-grade teacher-researchers. The article suggests that through small-group word study instruction…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten
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Abadzi, Helen – International Review of Education, 2008
Reading depends on the speed of visual recognition and capacity of short-term memory. To understand a sentence, the mind must read it fast enough to capture it within the limits of the short-term memory. This means that children must attain a minimum speed of fairly accurate reading to understand a passage. Learning to read involves "tricking" the…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Short Term Memory, Grade 6, Grade 2
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Tancock, Susan M.; Segedy, Janis – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
This action research project was conducted in a 2nd-grade classroom in the Midwest to determine the effects of technology on responses to texts. Six texts, representing a variety of rending levels, were selected for the children to read. Children in the control group read and did research from printed texts, and children in the treatment group…
Descriptors: Action Research, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2
Roberts, Jeannie Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This program evaluation of The Instant Word Notebook was conducted by two educators who created an instructional tool to teach and assess the most frequently occurring words in written text, commonly known as Instant Words. In an effort to increase the reading scores of first and second grade students, teachers were instructed to teach Instant…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Feedback (Response), Educational Strategies, Control Groups
Edwards, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this mixed research design study was to examine how teachers in a large urban Midwestern district used Thinking Maps® with students in elementary school general education and special education classrooms. In addition, this study examined the use of Thinking Maps® with 30 urban elementary school males in two schools: one second…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Males, Student Attitudes, Urban Schools
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Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2007
Project STAR (Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio) was a large-scale randomized trial of reduced class sizes in kindergarten through the third grade. Because of the scope of the experiment, it has been used in many policy discussions. For example, the California statewide class-size-reduction policy was justified, in part, by the successes of…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Research, Research Projects, Primary Education
Wooleyhand, Christopher – Principal, 2008
Schools are increasingly asked to expand their role in meeting the needs of all students. They are asked to provide a blend of synergistic ideas that are both traditional and progressive while dealing with huge differences in skill levels. The response of K-8 principals to this challenge can make all the difference in the world to children being…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Leadership Training, Leadership Qualities, Access to Education
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