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Direct linkJessica McPherson Dainty – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Some students still reach secondary level schooling without proficient foundational reading skills. Students who struggle to decode words accurately and efficiently will fail to adequately access grade-level texts independently, furthering the gap between themselves and their peers. Despite a subgroup of students reaching high school with word…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 10, High School Students, Reading Failure
Jasmine Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative exploratory case study focused on seventh and eighth grade teachers and a school principal's opinions and experiences to better understand why students' reading performances were failing in one public charter school in New Jersey and to provide solutions and recommendations for enhancing students' reading performance. Four…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Grade 8, Grade 7, Principals
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Download full textFlaum-Horvath, Shannon; Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.; Martella, Ronald C.; Kauppi, Cassondra – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
This study examined the effects of the SRA FLEX Literacy (FLEX) program provided to 44 middle school students considered at risk for reading failure as compared to their peers who were not at risk in reading (N = 197) who received instruction in the Holt Elements of Literature series. Two outcome measures were used to judge the effects of the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, At Risk Students
Boyd, Roxanne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The local district in this study has not made adequate yearly progress in the past several years in language arts literacy on state assessments. Particularly problematic were poor reading skills among district students. Poor literacy skills negatively affect student learning across the curriculum. The purpose of this case study was to identify…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Reading Achievement, Language Arts, Achievement Tests
Blanton, William E.; Wood, Karen D.; Taylor, D. Bruce – Reading Psychology, 2007
Research on subject matter instruction across the 20th century (e.g., Stevens, 1912; Bellack, 1966; Hoetker & Ahlbrand; 1969; Gall, 1970; Langer, 1999; Mehan, 1979; Nystrand, 1997;) reveals a preponderance of teacher-directed lecture, recitation, and round-robin reading of text in place of instruction that focuses on reading-to-learn, thinking,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Strategies, Middle Schools, Reading Research
McCabe, Patrick P. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2006
The self-defeating behavior of some students can often make even the most persistent of teachers to feel discouraged. The purpose of this article is to explain and provide a research-based rationale for the use of teacher verbal feedback prompts that convince students of their ability to succeed on a task. He discusses how to understand the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Theories, Metacognition, Social Cognition
