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Direct linkBatur, Zekerya – Reading Improvement, 2013
The aim of this study is to investigate the perception levels of the messages of didactic fiction texts in fictive context and the student's perception levels of these messages. 80 students attending the grades of 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th 20 from each grade, are randomly selected as participants. Under the supervision of specialists, six fictive…
Descriptors: Fiction, Text Structure, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
Hall-Mills, Shannon; Apel, Kenn – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2013
We evaluated the narrative and expository writing samples of 12 adolescents with language-learning disabilities (LLD) in Grades 6 to 12 for elements of microstructure (e.g., productivity, grammatical complexity) and macrostructure (genre-specific text structure elements) using an experimental measure. Writing samples were elicited with…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Writing Tests, Adolescents, Writing Evaluation
Lyons, Wanda; Thompson, Scott Anthony – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2012
Teachers in inclusive classrooms are challenged to provide reading instruction for students with a wide range of instructional levels. This article reports on the implementation of guided reading in four middle years inclusive classrooms, the impact on student engagement and reading progress, and teacher perspectives on the guided reading…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Tyler, Jennifer – Reading Teacher, 2010
Teacher Jennifer Tyler shares her experience of creating a text set for a social studies unit on colonial America.
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Grade 5, Reading Aloud to Others
Strassman, Barbara K.; MacDonald, Hillary; Wanko, Lindsay – Reading Teacher, 2010
Children ages 2-18 spend between two and four hours per day watching TV, a calculation that is even higher if DVDs, videos and the Internet are included. Although the amount of television watched by today's children has raised concerns about their literacy development, captions could hold a key to turning television into an educational asset.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mentors, Printed Materials, Documentaries
Summer Reading: Predicting Adolescent Word Learning from Aptitude, Time Spent Reading, and Text Type
Lawrence, Joshua Fahey – Reading Psychology, 2009
Mostly low-income African American and Hispanic teens (N = 192) were tested in (a) passage comprehension, (b) vocabulary ability, (c) cloze task performance, and (d) listening comprehension in the spring and vocabulary in the fall. Students were surveyed about reading (a) narrative, (b) expository, (c) teen culture, and (d) online texts.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Profiles, African Americans
Download full textBeyreli, Latif; Ari, Gokhan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
In this study, the purpose was to determine whether there was concordance among raters in the assessment of the writing performance using analytic rubric; furthermore, factors affecting the assessment process were examined. The analytic rubric used in the study consists of three sections and ten properties: External structure (format, spelling and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Scoring Rubrics, Program Effectiveness, Writing Evaluation
