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Emma Nguyen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation focuses on the acquisition of the English verbal "be"--passive and the interaction between the lexical meaning of a verb and young children's observed behavior with the verb in the passive. Specifically, I investigate how children exploit lexical semantic information from their input in order to learn which verbs can…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Children, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Skills
Kryscio, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Researchers have known for several years that when a child is reading below proficiency by the end of third grade, it is likely the child will continue to struggle learning to read through the child's academic career (Dickinson & Porche, 2011; Wasik & Hindman, 2011). Yet, the problem of children falling below third grade reading…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Literacy
Margaret T. Pesch – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this semester-long project was to redesign the ninth grade English language arts curriculum to include a literacy-based multicomponent intervention to meet the needs of developing readers, while simultaneously maintaining a rigorous curriculum challenging proficient readers in a general education classroom. I examined peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: General Education, Grade 9, Language Arts, Reading Skills
Alison Leveque – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This case study explores the introduction of a word study approach, Words Their Way (Pearson Education, n.d.), into 3 second-grade classrooms in the northeastern United States. Although phonics and spelling have been studied separately within classrooms (Cutler & Graham, 2008; Fresch, 2007; Graham & Santangelo, 2014; McCutchen et al.,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Word Study Skills, Faculty Development
Rosanne Manganelli – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Throughout elementary education, foundational literacy has been one of the essential components of students' reading and writing abilities. For students to be successful in their literacy skills, it is necessary for them to be afforded systematic word study instruction through the intentional teaching of foundational skills along with multisensory…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Functional Literacy
Louden, Perry F., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Middle school is often the last place where students are taught basic reading skills such as phonology, morphology, fluency, and comprehension before they move on to high school where reading is predominately focused on understanding, analysis, application and evaluation of content area material. In addition, middle school students are exposed to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Morphology (Languages), Word Study Skills
Edoho-Eket, Rachel Clinton – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study was designed to explore the effectiveness of balanced literacy instruction in two pre-kindergarten programs in a North Eastern suburban school district. The researcher used a mixed-methods design which included classroom observations, student performance data, and teacher interviews to determine if the language arts program produced…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Brittany Alexandria Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Due to the need of the closing the vocabulary gap between struggling and non-struggling readers, many school districts across the nation are faced with the extensive growing rate of students, falling behind their grade level peers. To meet this goal, administrators and teachers seek word study strategies to incorporate in their small group…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Word Study Skills, Small Group Instruction
Ghouse, Naseem F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative case study relates to the area of word study. The research examines how specific strategies support academic progress when students are stunted at one orthographic stage on the language continuum. Teachers and reading specialists who support language development for students in first through third grades were interviewed as…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Transformative Learning
Mihalik, Gregory Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of integrating word study spelling programs for second grade teachers across six elementary schools in Northern Virginia. Word study is a developmental spelling approach that can be used by teachers to differentiate instruction and meet student needs. Despite the growing…
Descriptors: Word Study Skills, Vocabulary Development, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
Ganzeveld, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Curriculum-Based Measures in writing (CBM-W) assesses a variety of fluency-based components of writing. While support exists for the use of CBM measures in the area of writing, there is a need to conduct further validation studies to investigate the utility of these measures within elementary and secondary classrooms. Since only countable indices…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Test Validity, Educational Quality
McCord, Kathryn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This paper presents a professional development model to support the implementation of word study in the middle school grades. The first section provides a rationale and considerations for the model. The following section discusses the theory and instructional methods of word study focusing on word sorting and word hunts. To confirm the…
Descriptors: Spelling, Developmental Stages, Faculty Development, Professional Development