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Rachel Knecht – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Syntactic knowledge, the implicit and explicit knowledge of syntax, is a necessary--but often overlooked--component of proficient reading (e.g., Deacon & Kieffer, 2018). Though some research exists on effective syntactic instruction, such as sentence combining (Neville & Searls, 1985; Wilkinson & Patty, 1993), researchers have called…
Descriptors: Syntax, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Middle School Students
Sara A. Sukalski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Proficient reading requires the ability to analyze words for various properties, including pronunciation, meaning, and syntactical function. However, most instruction in word analysis is limited to phonics instruction provided in the early elementary grades. For older students, whose words largely center units of meaning, or morphemes, early…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
Warnke, Tara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adolescence is a critical time period when it comes to fostering lifelong interest and practices in reading, yet a decreasing number of middle school students are performing at Proficient and Advanced levels in reading. The purpose of this study was to examine whether providing middle school students with an increased level of choice in their…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Independent Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement
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Knecht, Rachel; Larson, Lisa; Townsend, Dianna – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2023
Proficiency with sentence-level features of language is essential for reading comprehension of academic texts, especially for early adolescents who face increasingly complex, discipline-specific texts as they enter upper elementary and middle school. However, little research has been done to explore instruction in sentence-level features. This…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Social Studies
Kandi Lacretia Gay Fisher – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As STEM initiatives increase throughout elementary schools, literacy teachers need help finding their role in school-wide implementation. This qualitative case study explored the perceptions and willingness of sixteen literacy teachers to integrate engineering practices with children's texts. Through the lens of Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Chin-Wen Chien; Yi-Han Huang – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2024
This study explored the influence of using Curriculum-Based Readers Theater (CBRT) on promoting 12 sixth graders' oceanic knowledge and vocabulary learning in an elementary school in Taiwan. Based on the analysis of both quantitative (oceanic knowledge tests and vocabulary knowledge tests) and qualitative data (interviews, videos, and…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Marine Education, Grade 6
Jessica Cervano – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students struggling with reading in secondary school are between "learning to read" and "reading to learn." Struggling readers require metacognitive and cognitive reading skills to tackle the complexities of reading. Combining the research of worked-examples and think-aloud shaped the instructional intervention in this study.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Secondary School Students, Reading Difficulties
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Troyer, Margaret – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
Open discussion of text promotes students' reading achievement, yet classroom discussion is rare. The present study investigates whether teachers' knowledge for literacy teaching relates to their enactment of class discussion in the context of a high-quality literacy curriculum. Two sixth grade teachers (one who demonstrated high levels of…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 6
Krause, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Reading aloud to students is a common practice among teachers of young children. While reading aloud is a research-based instructional strategy with many potential benefits, studies show that not all teachers read aloud to their students, and read-aloud use tends to decline as students age. The purpose of this study was to explore the current…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 5, Grade 6, Teacher Behavior
Victoria Myrick Mackey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic affected schools worldwide. When schools shut down, teachers and students had no choice but to go to remote learning. A school in a rural setting participated in blended learning where students did a combination of asynchronous and synchronous learning. The subject of this study was two sixth grade groups of students with the…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Blended Learning, Middle School Students, Achievement Gains
Region 1 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This rubric was developed for the analysis of intervention programs against the criteria of implementing the four recommendations and accompanying action steps presented in the IES Practice Guide "Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9" for the Adolescent Literacy Intervention Selection Tool (A-LIST). Each item in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Chen, Pei-Yu; Scheibel, Gretchen A.; Henley, Vanessa M.; Wills, Howard P. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2022
Middle school students with social and behavioral concerns need additional support. The current study investigated the effects of Class-Wide Function-related intervention teams adapted for middle school contexts (CW-FIT MS) and self-management (SM) in a sixth-grade reading class. CW-FIT MS was implemented, subsequently, for students with data…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Reading Instruction
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Aaron C. Stratton; Aarek Farmer – AILACTE Journal, 2023
Motivation in students can have a strong effect on student engagement and overall student success. Due to the impact of COVID-19, students have been less motivated and have fallen farther behind which increases the need to better motivate and engage students within the classroom. This quasi-experimental study which incorporated a pre- and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Juliette Quadri; Justine Masson; Martine Poncelet – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate if a group of sixth-grade low achievement language minority (LM) students' reading skills could be improved by an intervention designed to train reading fluency, a critical component of reading development, defined as integrating speed and accuracy (reading rate) as well as prosody. The study included…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Rate, Grade 6, Low Achievement
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Nora Heyne; Timo Gnambs; Marie-Ann Sengewald – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Because large-scale studies repeatedly indicated low reading literacy for many students, a need for interventions fostering reading literacy, such as extracurricular tutoring, has often been emphasized. Several reading promoting programs, suitable for extracurricular tutoring, were developed and shown to be effective in recent years. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Student Characteristics, Literacy, Extracurricular Activities
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