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Buly, Marsha Riddle – Journal of American Indian Education, 2005
American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students are often labeled as struggling readers based on the results of large-scale standardized tests yet little empirical data about specific strengths and needs exists. In the present study we looked beyond high-stakes assessment to highlight reading strengths and needs for a group of fourth grade American…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Grade 4, Reading Difficulties
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Gaquin, Sheila – Educational Leadership, 2006
In this column, the author relates her experience as a teacher in a K-12 school in Point Hope, Alaska, where most of the students spoke "village English," a form of nonstandard English mixed with the village's native language of Inupiaq. She relates how the students' reading test scores, which had been below the 25th percentile, were…
Descriptors: Eskimo Aleut Languages, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Scores