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Marie-Andree Somers – Grantee Submission, 2023
The learning losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic make this an important time to identify strategies that can help students accelerate their learning. The Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention (STARI) is a year-long supplemental reading intervention that is intentionally designed to address the motivational barriers of middle school students…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Reading Instruction, Intervention
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Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
In the current study, we utilize natural language processing techniques to examine relations between the linguistic properties of students' self-explanations and their reading comprehension skills. Linguistic features of students' aggregated self-explanations were analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Results…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Linguistics, Predictor Variables
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Council, Morris R, III.; Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Green, DeLayna; Barber, Mariah; Ralph, Gardner, III. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This descriptive study examined whether a computer-based, repeated reading intervention (i.e., Reading Relevant and Culturally Engaging Stories) is associated with improved reading and social behavior for three primary-aged urban black girls who each showed both academic and behavioral risk. The Reading Relevant and Culturally Engaging Stories…
Descriptors: Observation, Educational Technology, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires
Meghan McCormick; Hope White; Parham Horn; Rachel Lacks; Erin O'Connor; Elise Cappella – Grantee Submission, 2017
Research findings: This study investigated how mean classroom-level shyness scores moderated the impacts of "INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament" on instructional support and students' math and reading skills in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. "INSIGHTS" is a temperament-based social- emotional learning intervention…
Descriptors: Shyness, Social Emotional Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Low Income Students
Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Nelson, J. Ron – Grantee Submission, 2015
A two-cohort cluster randomized trial was conducted to estimate effects of small-group supplemental vocabulary instruction for at-risk kindergarten English learners (ELs). "Connections" students received explicit instruction in high-frequency decodable root words, and interactive book reading (IBR) students were taught the same words in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Instructional Effectiveness
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Kelley, Joan; Russ, Julie – Grantee Submission, 2014
We conducted a randomized field trial to test an academic vocabulary intervention designed to bolster the language and literacy skills of linguistically diverse sixth-grade students (N = 2082; n = 1469 from a home where English is not the primary language), many demonstrating low achievement, enrolled in 14 urban middle schools. The 20-week…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Vocabulary Development