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Investigating the Reading Profiles of Middle School Emergent Bilinguals with Significant Reading Comprehension Difficulties
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Philip Capin; Sharon Vaughn; Joseph E. Miller; Jeremy Miciak; Anna-Mari Fall; Greg Roberts; Eunsoo Cho; Amy E. Barth; Paul K. Steinle; Jack M. Fletcher – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: This study investigated the reading profiles of middle school Spanish-speaking emergent bilinguals (EBs) with significantly below grade level reading comprehension and whether these profiles varied in their reading comprehension performance over time. Method: Latent profile analyses were used to classify Grade 6 and 7 Hispanic EBs (n =…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bilingual Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Investigating the Reading Profiles of Middle School Emergent Bilinguals with Significant Reading Comprehension Difficulties
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Philip Capin; Sharon Vaughn; Joseph E. Miller; Jeremy Miciak; Anna-Mari Fall; Greg Roberts; Eunsoo Cho; Amy E. Barth; Paul K. Steinle; Jack M. Fletcher – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: This study investigated the reading profiles of middle school Spanish-speaking emergent bilinguals (EBs) with significantly below grade level reading comprehension and whether these profiles varied in their reading comprehension performance over time. Method: Latent profile analyses were used to classify Grade 6 and 7 Hispanic EBs (n =…
Descriptors: Profiles, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Middle School Students
Exploring the Efficacy of "The Word within the Word" for Gifted and Typically Developing Students
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Gallagher, Shelagh A. – Roeper Review, 2017
An exploratory study of the efficacy of "The Word Within the Word" tested students' abilities to recognize, use, and recall vocabulary. Ten middle school teachers and their 493 students participated. Five teachers used "The Word Within the Word", and five used traditional vocabulary materials. Students completed an out-of-level…
Descriptors: Gifted, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development, Middle School Teachers
Child Predictors of Learning to Control Variables via Instruction or Self-Discovery
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Wagensveld, Barbara; Segers, Eliane; Kleemans, Tijs; Verhoeven, Ludo – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
We examined the role child factors on the acquisition and transfer of learning the control of variables strategy (CVS) via instruction or self-discovery. Seventy-six fourth graders and 43 sixth graders were randomly assigned to a group receiving direct CVS instruction or a discovery learning group. Prior to the intervention, cognitive, scientific,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Transfer of Training
Strengthening Academic Vocabulary with Word Generation® Helps Sixth-Grade Students Improve Reading Comprehension
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Mokhtari, Kouider; Velten, Justin – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2015
In this quasi-experimental study, we assessed the promise of Word Generation, a research-based academic vocabulary program, on improving the reading achievement outcomes of struggling sixth-grade readers in an after-school small group instructional setting. After 34 hours of academic vocabulary instruction, we compared the performance of a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 6, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development
The Effectiveness and Ease of Implementation of an Academic Vocabulary Intervention for Linguistically Diverse Students in Urban Middle Schools
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Lesaux, Nonie K.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Faller, S. Elisabeth; Kelley, Joan G. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
The present study aims to advance the extant research base by evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of an academic vocabulary program designed for use in mainstream middle school classrooms with high proportions of language minority learners. The quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study was conducted in 21 classes (13 treatment matched to…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Middle Schools, Vocabulary, Program Effectiveness