The purpose of this action research project report was to increase engagement during independent reading for 32 fourth-grade students and 26 seventh-grade science students. At Site A, data was collected from August 27, 2012 through December 14, 2012. At Site B, data was collected from September 24, 2012 through December 14, 2012. Students'…

Without proficiency in content reading skills, seventh grade students were at risk of not being able to achieve understanding of what they read in non-fiction texts, a skill that is absolutely necessary for college-bound students. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate whether an approach that involved specific and focused…

This study was designed to determine what effect knowledge of value clarification would have on the reading comprehension of eighth graders. The use of value clarification involves students in decision making, identification with characters or situations, evaluative judgments, appreciations, and so forth. In this study reading comprehension was…

A total of 99 students from a Toronto secondary vocational school participated in a study to determine whether students who studied retail merchandising differed significantly in comprehension and reading rate from students who did not study retail merchandising. An experimental group composed of 50 merchandising students and a control group of 49…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of verbal and perceptual aspects of learner aptitude, in relation to inspection behaviors performed while learning from written materials containing two modes of instructional content. Science instructional materials containing both text and diagrams were modified by (1) inserting questions that…

This report describes a program for improving vocabulary development thorough balanced literacy. The targeted population consisted of three elementary classrooms in a community located in a southern suburb of Chicago. A lack of vocabulary knowledge that interfered with student academic success was documented in state and standardized test results,…

In order to assess the effectiveness of model lessons in reading in the content areas, reading skills for the areas of science, social studies, and business education were extrapolated from relevant literature. Lessons incorporated the content of textbooks used at Greeley (Colorado) West High School, in order to develop the following specific…

The purpose of this study was to compare the reading ability of university freshmen in two remedial track courses with the readability of the assigned texts and in light of the instructional methodology employed by the instructional staff of two courses. The investigations findings seemed to suggest that the reading ability of the students in the…

This study looked at the problem of why reading study skills were not being used well as indicated by the research which was reviewed. One way to examine this problem was to find out where teachers believed selected reading study skills ought to be taught. In addition, this study investigated how important teachers believed each selected reading…

This study examined the effectiveness of two approaches to enhancing the reading comprehension of learning disabled students in the social studies content area. An approach using the graphic organizer in the form of visual displays was compared to the traditional method in which students were presented content through lecture, text, and linear…

To determine the effectiveness of mathematical vocabulary training on the problem solving ability of third and fourth grade students, 66 students were placed into either an experimental or a control group. All were pretested and posttested with an experimental mathematics vocabulary test and with a standardized mathematics test. Mathematical…

Three major aspects of content area reading programs in Florida's secondary schools were studied through the use of a questionnaire: curricula with provision for reading instruction in English, science, mathematics, and the social sciences; professional training of staff members; and administrative procedures. Of the 94 schools that responded, the…

This study investigated the influence of content area responsibility, amount of teaching experience, instructional level, and training in the teaching of reading on teachers' attitudes and perceptions of competency in content area reading instruction, and attempted to determine whether a relationship existed between these attitudes and perceptions…

This study investigated students' learning performances in reading and academic achievement after an experimental group took a reading improvement course in which vocabulary and comprehension improvement exercises were derived from their content area textbooks and a comparison group took a general reading improvement course with materials…

A study determined if using specific reading strategies would improve students' grades in science. Subjects, 21 fifth-grade students in an urban area school, studied four units of science--two units using the strategies outlined in the series teacher's manual, and two units using semantic mapping, cloze exercises, graphic aids, and vocabulary…