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Wallach, Geraldine P.; Ocampo, Alaine – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: In this discussion as part of a response to Catts and Kamhi's "Prologue: Reading Comprehension Is Not a Single Activity" (2017), the authors provide selected examples from 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade texts to demonstrate, in agreement with Catts and Kamhi, that reading comprehension is a multifaceted and complex ability. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship, Grade 4, Grade 5
O'Brien, Elysha Patino – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This qualitative case study addressed a lack of research concerning literature discussions for students with learning disabilities in reading. Fourth and fifth grade students with reading disabilities participated in twice-weekly literature discussions, 30-to-60 minutes each, for 12 weeks. The students attended a Title I school and most were…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Student Participation, Literature, Case Studies
Hume, Julie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many of today's students are reading below grade level and schools are investigating methods for increasing student achievement in the area of reading. This mixed method research study investigated the achievement of students who were reading below grade level. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between reading response…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Reading Achievement
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Soter, Anna O.; Wilkinson, Ian A. G.; Connors, Sean P.; Murphy, P. Karen; Shen, Vincent Fu-Yuan – English Education, 2010
Through their study of classroom talk about and around literary text, the authors discovered that their application of Rosenblatt's (1938/1995, 1978) "aesthetic" stance to elementary (primarily Grades 4-6) students' affective responses to literary text uniformly lacked the simultaneous articulation of "the real impact between the…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Classroom Communication, Reader Text Relationship, Grade 4