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Ebubekir Eroglu; Serpil Özdemir – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Selecting and remembering the necessary information from rapidly increasing information requires summarization skills. Research on improving students' summarization skills has focused on deletion, generalization, and reconstruction strategies. However, direct teaching of these strategies does not yield successful results. For this reason,…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Grade 7, Public Schools, Study Skills
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Zelaya, Kimberly J. D. – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
Read-aloud is a reading activity that is occurs most often in the early years classroom. Research suggests that read-aloud continues to be of value in the upper grades. Read-aloud provides opportunity for middle grade students to engage and connect to a range of literature. It increases motivation and improves accessibility for the range of…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
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Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Soto, Christian; Ramírez Carmona, Camila; Rodriguez, Fernanda; Pino Castillo, Patricio – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Reading and writing are both fundamental activities for successful learning. However, little is known about the effect of reading comprehension performance on writing, as well as the pedagogical guidelines that can be drawn from this influence. Method: Thus, the purpose of the present investigation was to examine the influence of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Breland, Luke; Lowenstein, Joanna H.; Nittrouer, Susan – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: In spite of improvements in language outcomes for children with hearing loss (HL) arising from cochlear implants (CIs), these children can falter when it comes to academic achievement, especially in higher grades. Given that writing becomes increasingly relevant to educational pursuits as children progress through school, this study…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Assistive Technology, Oral Language
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Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Grantee Submission, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
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Baig, Sana; Javed, Fareeha; Siddiquah, Aishah; Khanam, Afifa – SAGE Open, 2021
The present study analyzes the English textbook of Grade 8 published by Punjab Textbook Board in Pakistan in the light of student learning outcomes (SLOs) of four competencies: reading and thinking skills, writing skills, oral communication skills, and formal and lexical aspects of language of the latest English curriculum in Pakistan. Competency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, English (Second Language)
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Proctor, C. Patrick; Li, Zhushan; Daley, Samantha G.; Xu, Yang; Graham, Steve; Hall, Tracey E. – Elementary School Journal, 2020
Orthographic and linguistic knowledge are known predictors of reading and writing, yet little research with adolescent readers explores how such knowledge predicts reading and writing in a single model. We worked with 583 adolescent readers in remedial reading classes in grades 6-8 to collect indicators of orthographic and linguistic knowledge as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Remedial Reading, Reading Comprehension
Collins, Penelope; Tate, Tamara P.; Lee, Joong won; Krishnan, Jenell A.; Warschauer, Mark – Grantee Submission, 2021
We examined the contributions of English proficiency, genre, and the use of textual sources to adolescent writing. The sample included 1819 native English speakers and language minority students from 127 seventh- and eighth-grade classes in an urban school district. Students were randomly assigned one of three source-based essay prompts…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Jones, Sara; McFadden, Sara; Reynolds, Dan; Lantos, Tess – Grantee Submission, 2020
The authors describe Monster, PI, which is an app-based, gamified assessment that measures language skills (knowledge of morphology, vocabulary, and syntax) of students in grades 5-8 and provides teachers with interpretable score reports to drive instruction that improves vocabulary, reading, and writing ability. Specifically, the authors describe…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Handheld Devices, Language Maintenance, Language Tests
Paola Uccelli – Written Communication, 2023
Analytical writing poses particularly challenging, yet often overlooked, language demands that need attention in educational research and practice. In this article, I discuss the Core Analytical Language Skills (CALS) construct and its relevance for school reading and writing. CALS refer to the set of learners' school-relevant language resources…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Reading Materials
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Uwimpuhwe, Germaine; Singh, Akansha; Higgins, Steve; Coux, Mickael; Xiao, ZhiMin; Shkedy, Ziv; Kasim, Adetayo – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
Educational stakeholders are keen to know the magnitude and importance of different interventions. However, the way evidence is communicated to support understanding of the effectiveness of an intervention is controversial. Typically studies in education have used the standardised mean difference as a measure of the impact of interventions. This…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Multivariate Analysis, Bayesian Statistics
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Montero-Arévalo, Sindy Johana – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2019
The present paper puts under examination the effects of Genre Based Approach (GBA) on 9th grade students from a city in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The purpose of the study is to analyze how GBA affects reading comprehension and writing by comparing the students' results before and after the execution of the approach. GBA was implemented in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 9, Reading Comprehension, Literary Genres
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Tiril, Hamiye; Okumus, Seda – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
This study aims to reveal the problems faced by a dyslexic student in learning science and determine what can be considered an effective science teaching method for this kind of learner. The case study design was used, and the study was conducted with a 7th-grade dyslexic female student. This study used observations and a semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Secondary School Students, Females, Dyslexia
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Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Academic language has been identified as an important focus for instructing students about the quality of written composition they need to be successful in college and career. However, the role of academic language in written composition achievement is not well understood. This study explores the role of academic language skills in students'…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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