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Alston, Chandra L.; Byrne Bausell, Sarah – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to understand the supports and challenges to using disciplinary and antiracism lenses when teaching with informational texts in middle grades English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms. Design/methodology/approach: This paper analyzes teacher talk in four virtual sessions with four middle grades ELA teachers in one school…
Descriptors: Racism, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
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Kaban, Aysegul Liman – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
These days, screen reading has been widely adopted and discussed by school teachers and researchers. However, few studies have been conducted to formally evaluate the effectiveness of screen reading in improving EFL students' English reading comprehension, not to mention investigating the factors affecting their reading comprehension outcomes. In…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Individualized Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Experience
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Powell, Margaret B.; Gadke, Daniel L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
Oral reading fluency has been established in previous literature as a key component in becoming an effective reader. Repeated reading (RR) and listening passage preview (LPP) are both oral reading fluency interventions well-supported in the research literature, however, most of this study explores their use with elementary-aged children, with only…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Repetition
Chastity Griffin Baccus – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Black boys in grades third through fifth are not developing reading comprehension skills compared to their peers in an urban southeastern school district. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore perceptions of third through fifth grade reading teachers on reading comprehension of Black boys in this district. The conceptual…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Males, African American Students
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Cadena Aguilar, Roso Freddy; Ortega Cuellar, Javier Hernando; Cadena Aguilar, Albedro – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
This action research study aimed to examine the possible impact of the "Daily 6" approach on the oral fluency in English of 13 adolescents. This approach (extension of the existing Daily 5™ framework) introduced a sixth step, "speak to someone", to respond to the lack of oral fluency limiting participants' overall speaking…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khelifi, Rachid; Sparrow, Laurent; Casalis, Séverine – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
In the present study, the frequency effect was examined specifically in text reading in developing and expert readers. Third graders, fifth graders, and expert readers read the same short text containing high- and low-frequency words while their eye movements were recorded. The frequency effect was observed in temporal and spatial measures of eye…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Miyamoto, Ai; Pfost, Maximilian; Artelt, Cordula – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
The goal of the present study was to investigate the mediating effects of reading amount and metacognitive knowledge of strategy use in the relationship between intrinsic motivation and reading comprehension among secondary school students. We hypothesized that reading amount and metacognitive knowledge of strategy use in Grade 6 will mediate the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Metacognition, Correlation
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Dinsmore, Daniel L.; Fox, Emily; Parkinson, Meghan M.; Bilgili, Devrim – Journal of Experimental Education, 2019
Explanatory patterns regarding situational differences in reading comprehension performance may be best captured by multidimensional reader profiles. Data from 56 third- and fifth-grade students were collected to investigate the applicability, scope, and convergent validity of a reader profiling scheme based on Alexander's (2005) reader profile…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Grade 3, Grade 5
Mesa, Michael P.; Roehrig, Alysia; Funari, Chelsea; Durtschi, Shawna; Ha, Cheyeon; Rawls, Erik; Davis, Cheron – Grantee Submission, 2021
A substantial amount of evidence suggests that students, particularly those from economically disadvantaged households, experience summer reading loss. Available evidence suggests this is due to a lack of participation in literacy-focused activities and access to books during the summer break from school. The current study investigated whether…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Summer Programs, Literacy Education
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Del Nero, Jennifer – Reading Improvement, 2020
This single instrument case study illuminates the aesthetic transactions an adolescent male student constructs in response to an experimental Gothic studies reading unit implemented by his cooperating teacher over a sixth month period in his seventh grade ELA (English/ Language Arts) class. Ray is described as ''lazy' regarding academic reading…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Case Studies, Aesthetics, Males
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Herbert, Katherine E. D.; Massey-Garrison, Angela; Geva, Esther – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
This longitudinal study examined story-writing development of students from Grade 4 to Grade 6, comparing the developmental trajectories of English as a first language (EL1s; n = 43) and English learners (ELs; n = 108) in general, and in groups of EL1s and ELs with typically developing and poor reader profiles. In relation to their EL1 or EL…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Story Telling
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Lázaro, Miguel; Acha, Joana; de la Rosa, Saray; García, Seila; Sainz, Javier – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study was designed to examine the developmental course of the suffix frequency effect and its role in the development of automatic morpho-lexical access. In Spanish, a highly transparent language from an orthographic point of view, this effect has been shown to be facilitative in adults, but the evidence with children is still inconclusive. A…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Suffixes, Adults, Children
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Downey, Douglas B.; Kuhfeld, Megan; van Hek, Margriet – Sociology of Education, 2022
Growing evidence suggests that contrary to popular belief, schools mostly do not generate achievement gaps in cognitive skills but, rather, reflect the inequalities that already exist. In the case of socioeconomic status, exposure to school often reduces gaps. Surprisingly little is known, however, about whether this pattern extends to gender gaps…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Gender Differences, Cognitive Ability, Mathematics Achievement
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Solis, Michael; Vaughn, Sharon; Stillman-Spisak, Stephanie J.; Cho, Eunsoo – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
This experimental study examined the efficacy of a multicomponent reading intervention compared to a business-as-usual comparison condition on the reading comprehension and content area vocabulary outcomes of adolescent students with low reading comprehension. We randomly assigned 9th-grade students with low reading comprehension to a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Intervention, Grade 9
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Januarty, Resky; Nima, Hanna Novariana Azizah – International Journal of Language Education, 2018
Teaching and learning process is an essential aspect of a successful English teaching and learning. Reading skill is one of the language skills in English which gives a huge input to the learner. Nevertheless, it is mostly found that reading material and its exercises examine explicitly of what have been learned. Recently, multimodal texts become…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Multimedia Materials, Junior High School Students, Foreign Countries
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