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Direct linkPorter, Gracie Allen Robinson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A quantitative ex post facto causal comparative research method was used to investigate and analyze the reading comprehension achievement of middle school Black male students in two middle schools. Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) reading scores of students in grades five, six, seven, and eight from school years 2006-2007,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Males, African American Students
Peer reviewedDennis, Danielle V.; Kroeger, Diane C. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2012
A conceptualization of reading as an interaction of constrained and unconstrained skills formed the theoretical basis for this correlational analysis of adolescents' orthographic knowledge. We hypothesized that orthographic development (as measured by spelling ability) would serve as a link between constrained and unconstrained reading skills in…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Tests, Adolescents, Reading Skills
Dennis, Danielle V. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
The confluence of No Child Left Behind and the National Reading Panel report on the five essential components of reading instruction forged a path for struggling adolescent readers that supports a narrow curriculum designed to address gaps in constrained skills. Adolescents from a large school district in the state of Tennessee who failed state…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Adolescents
