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Download full textZamorano, Wanda Jean – 1993
A practicum was designed to improve the reading growth and achievement of 60 eighth-grade students who were one or more years behind grade level by utilizing CNN Newsroom and the "USA Today" newspaper as an integral part of the reading program. Pre- and posttests were administered to measure outcomes. The six areas measured were: (1)…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Low Achievement
Stevens, Robert J.; And Others – 1989
A year-long study determined the long-term effects of a comprehensive learning approach to elementary reading and writing instruction on students' achievement, attitudes, and metacognitive awareness. Subjects, 529 students in 29 second- through sixth-grade classes in a suburban Maryland school district, participated in the Cooperative Integrated…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies
Langer, Judith A.; And Others – 1988
To investigate how Mexican-American students constructed meaning from English texts when engaged in reading and writing activities, a study examined 12 fifth grade Mexican-American students who lived in a "barrio" with literacy in both Spanish and English. The aim was to tap the envisionments (text interpretations or understandings, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Mexican Americans
Sharp, Patricia; Ashby, Doris – 2002
This report intends to describe a program designed to enhance reading comprehension. Reading comprehension relies on skills that enable students to remember facts, draw out main ideas, make inferences, and relate reading to personal experiences. The focus group consisted of middle and high school students in a metropolitan area in northern…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedKoda, Keiko – Modern Language Journal, 1993
The application of language processing skills between 2 languages with dissimilar morphosyntactic features was investigated with 72 American university students learning Japanese. Results suggest that learners' first- and second-language knowledge both play a significant role and that the linguistic knowledge and coding capability for text…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Japanese, Language Processing
McKown, Brigitte A.; Barnett, Cynthia L. – Online Submission, 2007
This action research project report documents the action research project that was conducted to improve reading comprehension with second grade and third grade students. The teacher researchers intended to improve reading comprehension by using higher-order thinking skills such as predicting, making connections, visualizing, inferring,…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Reading Difficulties, Thinking Skills
Blease, Cindi; Ecklund, Kristina; Hitzman, Michelle – 1999
A balanced, systematic, instructional reading program was designed to increase word recognition in beginning readers. The targeted population consisted of first graders in an upper middle class community located in the Chicago suburbs. The lack of word recognition was documented through assessments revealing students' phonemic awareness, reading…
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
Boone, Robert S. – 1996
Designed to help students improve their understanding of everything they read, especially the types of reading selections that they will find on standardized tests (such as the ACT and SAT), this guide explains the 3 key steps to strategic reading: preview before reading, underline and annotate while reading, and summarize after reading. It…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Critical Reading, Employment, Higher Education
Woods, Mary Lynn; Moe, Alden J. – 1995
This book presents three narrative forms and two expository forms of an analytical reading inventory (ARI) that evaluates the processing strategies readers use as they read. Designed to be used as an individual analysis, the ARI presented in the book can help identify the reader's general level of word recognition; word recognition strengths and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Informal Reading Inventories
Nachman, Leah B. – 1987
This practicum was designed to improve reading comprehension of intermediate grade children attending compensatory education classes in a Florida elementary school. It involved 11 students in grades 2 through 5 who were low achievers in reading and/or math. It was designed to improve reading comprehension by providing training using six specific…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Langford, Patricia A.; Rizzo, Sandra K.; Roth, Jean M. – 2003
This study was an action research project designed to improve students' reading comprehension. Students in the targeted kindergarten, second, and third grade classes exhibited a lack of reading comprehension, which interfered with their academic achievement. Data was collected by student and parent surveys, observations, and document analysis.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Advance Organizers, Family Characteristics
Gude, Sonya; Jackson, Tonya; Shaw, Arnitria – 2000
This report describes a program for improving reading comprehension skills in order to heighten understanding of materials covered in class and performance on activities and exams. The targeted population consisted of first-, fifth-, and eighth-grade students in a large, lower- to middle-class community located in central Illinois. The problems in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning
Scott, Louise Shewfelt – 1999
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that investigated whether the Accelerated Reader program meets its claim to motivate and improve reading achievement for all students, including those with special needs. The Accelerated Reader program is a computer-based reading management system that includes a database of thousands of books ranging…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Levitan, Carolyn – Journal of High School Science Research, 1991
Describes the effects upon the attitude and achievement of a group of below average sixth grade readers generated by enriching the language arts curriculum from a literature base to a science base. Results indicate that attitude did not improve overall, but the achievement measure increased for 12 of the 17 students. The attitude survey is…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Integrated Curriculum
Correia, Rosane – English Teaching Forum, 2006
Using a reading lesson designed for advanced university students in Brazil, the author discusses different types of exercises that can help students become more active readers and be more critical about the reading materials. The author distinguishes between passive and active reading tasks and argues that active tasks are more beneficial because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Critical Reading, Reading Instruction
