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Wijekumar, Kausalai; Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Lei, Puiwa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Reading in the content areas of science, social studies, and current events is a difficult task that is even more elusive to Spanish speaking English language learners. There is a huge increase in children transitioning from their L1 (e.g., Spanish) to L2 (e.g., English) in classrooms across the US. These ELs face challenges due to a lack of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 5
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
The study reviewed in this paper examined the impact of "Collaborative Strategic Reading" ("CSR"), a set of instructional strategies used to build reading proficiency, on the reading comprehension of fifth-grade students. The analysis included 1,355 students from 74 social studies classrooms within 26 linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students