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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Pathway to Academic Success Project" trains teachers to improve the reading and writing abilities of English learners (ELs) who have an intermediate level of English proficiency by incorporating cognitive strategies into reading and writing instruction. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention report, part of the WWC's…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Pathway to Academic Success Project" trains teachers to improve the reading and writing abilities of English learners (ELs) who have an intermediate level of English proficiency by incorporating cognitive strategies into reading and writing instruction. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention report, part of the WWC's…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Pathway to Academic Success Project" trains teachers to improve the reading and writing abilities of English learners (ELs) who have an intermediate level of English proficiency by incorporating cognitive strategies into reading and writing instruction. The cognitive strategies include goal setting, tapping prior knowledge, asking…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Literacy skills are critical to students' academic achievement and setting them on a path to successful high school graduation and readiness for college and careers. "Passport Reading Journeys" [TM] is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Literacy skills are critical to students' academic achievement and setting them on a path to successful high school graduation and readiness for college and careers. "Passport Reading Journeys" [TM] is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Literacy skills are critical to students' academic achievement and setting them on a path to successful high school graduation and readiness for college and careers. "Passport Reading Journeys" [TM] is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
Direct linkGraham, Jedda; Tisher, Ruth; Ainley, Mary; Kennedy, Gregor – Educational Psychology, 2008
This study addresses concerns about boys' underperformance on literacy tasks compared to girls, by investigating male and females students' responses to narrative texts. Participants were 142 Grade 9 and 10 students. Achievement orientations, including goals, self-efficacy, and self-handicapping, were measured and approach and avoidance factors…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Low Achievement
Cheng, Liying; Klinger, Don A.; Zheng, Ying – Language Testing, 2007
Results from the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) indicate that English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Literacy Development (ELD) students have comparatively low success and high deferral rates. This study examined the 2002 and 2003 OSSLT test performances of ESL/ELD and non-ESL/ELD students in order to identify and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Literacy
Tierney, Robert J. – 1988
This study of the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) environment focused on the potential of a computer-saturated environment to facilitate students' thinking processes. Four approaches were used: (1) a longtitudinal approach to study student growth and development; (2) observations of students' behavior while writing with the computer to study…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 10
ACT, Inc., 2007
The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) is designed to provide assistance to low income students. The program provides discretionary grants for the purpose of increasing the readiness of low income students to attend and succeed in postsecondary education. The grants are up to six years in length and provide…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Grade 8
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Michigan Educational Assessment Program. – 1989
Background information is provided about the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) reading test, a test developed to meet the objectives specified by the State Board of Education in 1986. The revised test measures reading in a more interactive manner than did previous tests. The rationale of the test is presented, the revised reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 4
