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Chiekara Shaniecious Grace Waters-Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The problem addressed in the study is the significant numbers of elementary school students who fail to demonstrate proficiency in reading/language arts as determined by the Georgia Milestones English Language Arts Test. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of effective research-based parental…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Parent Participation, Educational Strategies, Teacher Attitudes
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Union, Craig D.; Union, Lori Walker; Green, Tim D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study explored the effects of a portable technology intervention, the Nook Simple Touch eReader, on student performance in Reading and English/Language Arts when included as an integral part of the teaching and learning process in an elementary third-grade classroom. This study used the participating students' end-of-year second-grade scores…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Grade 3, Technology Uses in Education
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Morris, Robin D.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Woo, Deborah Gee; Quirk, Matthew; Sevcik, Rose – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine short- and long-term effects of two instructional approaches designed to improve the reading fluency of second-grade children: Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (or FORI; Stahl & Heubach, 2005) and a wide reading approach (Kuhn et al., 2006). By the end of second grade, children in the wide reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Grade 2, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Carr, Martha; Thompson, Heidi – 1995
A study examined how topic interest and brief metacognitive strategy instruction affected learning from reading. Subjects were 81 third graders (33 females, 48 males) randomly assigned to 4 groups. All the students attended 1 of 10 third-grade classes in an elementary school located in a middle- and lower-socioeconomic status area in central…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Metacognition, Predictor Variables