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Hunt, Marianne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this mixed-method case study is to determine the effect that a grade-wide literacy intervention program implemented through a professional learning community (PLC)has on the motivation, literacy identity, and performance of a cohort of sixth-grade students at a middle school in Norwalk, California. In this study, team of sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Literacy Education, Intervention
Curwen, Margaret Sauceda; Miller, Roxanne Greitz; White-Smith, Kimberly A.; Calfee, Robert C. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2010
Success in the 21st century, for individuals and societies, requires competence in comprehending and communicating in the academic disciplines--the natural sciences, history, geography, and more. The Read-Write Cycle (RWC) Project, a three year longitudinal research study conducted from 2005-2008 in ten public elementary schools in southern…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Content Area Reading, Metacognition, Literacy
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Montelongo, Jose; Herter, Roberta J.; Ansaldo, Robert; Hatter, Naomi – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article presents a lesson cycle of activities for teaching reading and writing skills for expository text. The lesson cycle consists of four parts: (1) vocabulary words, (2) text structures, (3) modified sentence completion activity, and (4) rewriting text. Sixth- and seventh-grade summer school students were taught to recognize and…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Summer Programs, Reading, Vocabulary