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Wigfield, Allan; Guthrie, John T.; Perencevich, Kathleen C.; Taboada, Ana; Klauda, Susan Lutz; McRae, Angela; Barbosa, Pedro – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
The engagement model of reading development suggests that instruction improves students' reading comprehension to the extent that it increases students' engagement processes in reading. We compared how Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) (support for cognitive and motivational processes in reading), strategy instruction (support for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
Foster, Shannon – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2007
This article describes a teacher and class as they discover that their reading comprehension strategies cross over into mathematical problem solving. The students practice using visualization techniques to improve their understanding of word problems. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Problems (Mathematics), Inferences, Reading Strategies
Roberts, Greg; Torgesen, Joseph K.; Boardman, Alison; Scammacca, Nancy – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
Over a quarter of 8th-grade students and more than one-third of 4th graders do not read well enough to understand important concepts and acquire new knowledge from grade-level text. For students with learning disabilities, the numbers are more troubling. This article describes features of evidence-based instruction for students who continue to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Improvement, Learning Disabilities, Grade 4
Swaggerty, Elizabeth – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2009
What happens when children come across texts that push the boundaries of what they expect to encounter when they pick up a picture book? There exists a genre of nontraditional picture books, commonly referred to as "postmodern picture books," which is characterized by a variety of alternative literary and illustrative devices. Given that…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Picture Books, Postmodernism
Meadan, Hedda; Mason, Linda H. – Beyond Behavior, 2007
Students with emotional disturbance (ED) represent the fourth most prevalent category of disability in the United States. Although the IDEA definition states that the educational performance of students with ED is adversely influenced by inappropriate behavior and feelings, the literature focuses mainly on the problem behaviors and not on the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Emotional Disturbances
Belet, S. Dilek; Gursoy, Esim – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
In today's world it has long become a necessity to learn and communicate in another language other than one's mother tongue (L1). When the world is walking on the path of globalization people try to learn a second/foreign language (L2). In this study it's critically aimed to explore strategy use in L1 and L2 reading at K12 level. Subjects involved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Montelongo, Jose A.; Hernandez, Anita C. – Reading Teacher, 2007
This article introduces a modification of the sentence completion task that acquaints students with various types of informational text structures (e.g., cause-effect, compare-contrast) and challenges their higher order reading and writing skills. When the individual sentences comprising an expository paragraph are intermingled with unrelated…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 4, Writing Skills, Sentences
Yurick, Amanda L.; Robinson, Porsha D.; Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Lo, Ya-yu; Evans, Trisha L. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2006
We conducted three experiments examining the effects of peer-mediated repeated readings on students' oral reading fluency and comprehension. Each repeated reading session consisted of students reading in pairs, alternating paragraphs, for 10 minutes. Students used a scripted correction procedure when errors occurred. Students then participated in…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Experiments
Carter, Carolyn J. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2011
Charter school administrators weathered start-up woes, among them challenging students with unmet needs, verbal assaults, dwindling student enrollment, and a first-year budget deficit exceeding $200,000 to implement a reading improvement strategy that holds promise for helping at-risk students read better, a point particularly underscored…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Charter Schools, Small Schools
Zelvis, Rima R. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This study examined the effects of the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) curriculum on reading achievement of students with various motivational levels. A 2X2 factorial design was used. The sample population consisted of 104 fourth grade students from an upper middle class school system in Connecticut. All students were administered a…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Motivation, Visualization, Reading Strategies
Vakali, Anthi; Evans, Roy – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
Reading development is said to progress in a series of developmental skills and stages that need to be acquired by emerging young readers. The literature on Greek braille reading and its development found that print readers opt for the same text decoding strategy even at the initial stages of development. This article explores the development of…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, Miscue Analysis
Proctor, C. Patrick; Dalton, Bridget; Grisham, Dana L. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2007
As interest and concern rise in U.S. educational circles around the reading achievement of English language learners (ELLs) and struggling readers, researchers and practitioners alike are calling for the increased use of technology as a means to decrease achievement gaps in reading (Jimenez, 2003; Strangman & Dalton, 2005). In this article, we…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication, Reading Achievement, Second Language Learning
Johnson, Denise – Guilford Publications, 2008
Fourth grade is an important year for literacy learning. Having left the primary grades behind, students must grapple with more demanding texts and content material. Effective, motivating instruction can help them succeed. This book helps teachers create an energized and organized learning environment in which all students can improve their…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Writing Strategies, High Stakes Tests, Grade 4
Yin, Li; Anderson, Richard C.; Zhu, Jin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Developmental stages in reading English words were examined among 118 Chinese children in Grades 2, 4, and 6 from a working-class elementary school in Tianjin, China. Proficiency in Chinese and English, ability to make orthographic analogies in both languages, and strategies in reading English words were assessed. Results suggest that Chinese…
Descriptors: Vowels, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
Rogers, Theresa; Winters, Kari Lynn; Bryan, Gregory; Price, John; McCormick, Frank; House, Liisa; Mezzarobba, Dianna; Sinclaire, Carollyne – Reading Teacher, 2006
This article illustrates the development and use of a situated assessment tool in the context of a collaborative (university-school district) literacy reform effort in British Columbia, Canada. The three-year project was focused on improving literacy, including reading comprehension strategy use, among students in grades 4 through 8. It began in…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Literacy, Professional Development, Educational Change