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Direct linkAshton Hughes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
High school graduates should be able to read to complete everyday tasks. Without this ability, their quality of life could decline from the lack, a negative mindset, or both. Therefore, educational stakeholders aiding students with reading struggles must find the most effective solutions for these students. Students achieving below-average on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure
Penzone, Colleen C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In the late 1970's, Durkin's landmark study showed that less than 1% of elementary classroom reading instruction was dedicated to comprehension strategies because teachers were not explicit in their instruction. This qualitative study explored the types of questions posed by elementary and middle school teachers to elicit students' responses and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Snyder, Anne Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The ability to comprehend expository text is vital for academic and professional success; however, many students struggle with this genre. While it has been found that text structure-based graphic organizers (GOs) may assist older students in comprehending expository text, it is uncertain whether this type of scaffold is effective for…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Instructional Materials, Statistical Analysis, Control Groups
Wright, Jana D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine what read-aloud style and delivery of an elementary school teacher looked like, as well as how style and delivery varied from teacher to teacher. Both fiction and nonfiction texts were considered. The reading styles utilized by the teacher participants during two fiction and two nonfiction read-aloud events…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Video Technology, Cognitive Style, Text Structure
Haria, Priti Damji – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of instruction in a genre-specific reading comprehension strategy, "Critical Analysis of Argumentative Text" (CAAT), which was designed to help students to identify, summarize and critically analyze parts of argumentative text. Based on the premise that reading and writing require similar knowledge of text…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Criticism, Grade 5
Anthony, Angela Beckman – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Basal reading series are used in a majority of classrooms in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the frequency of fiction and nonfiction genres included in four recently published first and second grade basal reading series and to compare the frequencies to studies of older basal reading series. Based on the work of…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Basal Reading, Classification, Literacy
