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Klingner, Janette K.; Urbach, Jennifer; Golos, Deborah; Brownell, Mary; Menon, Shailaja – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2010
In this study, we conducted 124 observations of 41 special education teachers teaching reading to their third- through fifth-grade students with learning disabilities to determine the extent to which and in what ways they promoted students' reading comprehension. In 42 lessons, we did not observe any comprehension instruction. In 30 lessons, the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Special Education Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
Joseph, Rosnel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This applied dissertation was designed to evaluate improving the reading performance of fifth-grade students through an afterschool reading program to determine whether it was effective in teaching Native American and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). This study compared the reading performance of fifth-grade students who struggle…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs, American Indians, Observation
Armbrister, Ana Leonor – ProQuest LLC, 2010
English Language Learners are an ever-growing population in public school systems today. Consequently, the policies and procedures that schools are required to adhere to are not limited to language minority students. In order for teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learning students, they need to address their student's whole…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Reading Comprehension, Student Participation, Second Language Learning