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Direct linkDel Nero, Jennifer – Reading Improvement, 2019
This conceptual article explores early adolescent students' responses to an experimental Gothic reading unit (including popular culture and traditional texts). The Gothic genre was selected due to both its prevalence in youth culture and lack of representation in reading classrooms. This hybrid curriculum increased academic reading engagement in…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Adolescent Literature, Classics (Literature), Reading Instruction
Download full textHalbach, Till; Solheim, Ivar – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
This work investigates in how far gamification and micro-learning, implemented by the novel technologies H5P and xAPI, are suitable to increase the motivation and learning performance of pupils with cognitive and behavioral challenges. The context for the field trials is the Norwegian SOL framework (short for Systematic Observation of Reading) in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
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. 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
Herrera, Sarah; Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
The importance of adolescent literacy is well established, and the topic continues to be of both local and national interest. Practitioners need to know not only which programs and practices appear effective, but which have the scientific evidence to support that claim. To identify effective programs and practices for general education students in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
The "Talent Development Middle Grades Program" is a comprehensive reform model that transforms the structure and curriculum of large urban middle schools with the aim of improving student achievement and raising teacher and student expectations. Key features of the "Talent Development Middle Grades Program" include small…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Urban Schools
What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has updated its 2009 intervention report for SuccessMaker®, a set of computer-based courses designed to supplement regular K-8 reading instruction. The program is designed to improve skills in areas such as concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Jacovina, Matthew E.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
In this chapter, we describe several intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) designed to support student literacy through reading comprehension and writing instruction and practice. Although adaptive instruction can be a powerful tool in the literacy domain, developing these technologies poses significant challenges. For example, evaluating the…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Literacy Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Applegate, Mary DeKonty; Bucci, Carol – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2013
In this article, we describe our research involving the administration of the Critical Reading Inventory-2 (CRI-2), an informal reading inventory that places special emphasis on thoughtful response to text and higher level thinking. We administered the CRI-2 to a group of students to obtain diagnostic data for guiding instruction. The data for…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reader Response, Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension
Calhoon, Mary Beth; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this project was to examine group- and individual-level responses by struggling adolescents readers (6th-8th grades; N = 155) to three different modalities of the same reading program, Reading Achievement Multi-Component Program. The three modalities differ in the combination of reading components (phonological decoding, spelling,…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Programs, Remedial Reading, Middle School Students
What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
"Repeated reading" is an academic practice that aims to increase oral reading fluency. "Repeated reading" can be used with students who have developed initial word reading skills but demonstrate inadequate reading fluency for their grade level. During "repeated reading," a student sits in a quiet location with a…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Repetition
Colvin, Richard Lee – Education Sector, 2012
California's Academic Performance Index (API) is the state's main accountability metric. Authorized by the Legislature in 1999, around the time California was implementing rigorous new standards in math, science, social studies, and English language arts, the API relies heavily on the results of standardized tests designed to align with those…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, Federal Legislation
Kundert, Deborah K. – Evaluation Consortium, 2012
The New York State Education Department, in partnership with the New York City Department of Education, developed a "Striving Readers project" to address the literacy needs of early adolescent struggling readers in middle school. The goal of the project was to implement and examine the impact of a one-year comprehensive supplemental…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Partnerships in Education, Literacy, Early Adolescents
Chaplin, Duncan; Bleeker, Martha; Booker, Kevin – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
Roads to Success (RTS) is a school and career planning program designed to be implemented for 45 minutes per week in grades 7 through 12. Researchers at Mathematica Policy Research used a random assignment design to estimate the impacts of receiving RTS in grades 7 and 8. More than half of the students in these schools were eligible for free or…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Study Habits, Career Planning, Middle Schools
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