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Sherman, Khristine; Gabriel, Rachael – Reading Teacher, 2017
Reading and creating stories is a longstanding pedagogical approach to literacy learning in elementary school classrooms because stories offer personal and human experiences to which students can relate and respond. Stories, including digital forms such as short films, offer accounts of what it is to belong to a community and its worldviews and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Students, Grade 6
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Limbrick, Lisa; Wheldall, Kevin; Madelaine, Alison – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2012
Recent inquiries into the underachievement of boys in reading have called into question whether they require different forms of reading instruction from girls. A number of reading programs and initiatives have been developed to address this issue, including programs based on increasing boys' motivation, improving behaviour, embracing the use of…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Females, Reading Programs, Effect Size
Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries