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Uses and Misuses of Commercial Reading Assessment: An Applied Framework for Decision Making in Grades K through 6
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Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Eunsoo Cho; Samantha Bourgeois; Ellie Friedman – Reading Teacher, 2024
The purpose of this article was to offer guidance to educators in evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and most effective uses of commercial reading assessment suites. We provide three resources to help educators who are responsible for making instructional decisions in reading using formal screening, benchmark, interim, and progress-monitoring…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Decision Making, Reading Achievement, Evaluation Methods
The Lost Art of the Book Talk: What Students Want
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Batchelor, Katherine E.; Cassidy, Rebecca – Reading Teacher, 2019
The authors share an activity in which two fifth-grade teachers and one sixth-grade teacher received book talk videos via Flipgrid from preservice literacy teachers and watched the videos with their students. Students responded with feedback and suggestions for how to better represent each book. The authors compiled and coded students' comments…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Video Technology, Reading Teachers
Rights and Responsibilities with Tech: Students' Take on Classroom Policies
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Hsin, Lisa B.; Mu, Nan; Selman, Robert L. – Reading Teacher, 2021
We paint a picture of preadolescent students' thinking on a topic of everyday importance: the right to use and the responsibility not to abuse digital technology in school. We analyzed the writing of students in grades 4-7 in response to an essay prompt about classroom iPad (tablet computer) use after a hypothetical cyberbullying incident,…
Descriptors: Student Rights, Student Responsibility, Technology Integration, Handheld Devices
The 5L Instructional Design For Exploring Legacies through Biography
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Boulware, Beverly J.; Monroe, Eula E.; Wilcox, Bradley Ray – Reading Teacher, 2013
People who have impacted generations have left legacies we can explore today through biographies. The 5L instructional design introduced in this article includes five components: Listen, Learn, Locate, Link, and Legacy. In the "Listen" section, teachers use storytelling and read-alouds to introduce individuals who shaped history. During…
Descriptors: Biographies, Story Telling, Reading Aloud to Others, Instructional Materials
Gains of Fifth and Sixth Grade Readers from In-School Tutoring.
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Bessai, Frederick; Cozac, Con – Reading Teacher, 1980
Results of a Canadian study show that students with mild to medium reading disabilities benefited from tutorial remediation and continued to make normal progress the next nine months. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Pretesting: Minimize Time Spent on Skill Work for Intermediate Readers.
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Taylor, Barbara M.; Frye, Barbara J. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Recommends pretesting intermediate grade students' basal skills to eliminate unnecessary basal skill instruction. Provides guidelines for pretesting reading comprehension skills. (MM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
To Think Anew: Native American Literature and Children's Attitudes.
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May, Jill P. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Describes a literature and film approach used with fifth and sixth grade students to develop their understanding of and appreciation for Native American culture. (FL)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Awareness
From the Known to the Unknown: Using Cognates To Teach English to Spanish-Speaking Literates.
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Rodriguez, Timothy A. – Reading Teacher, 2001
Considers how if educators view students' first language as a problem that needs to be eradicated, perhaps they make learning English more difficult. Describes an approach focusing on cognates used with 20 middle school students in their first year of a transitional program in south Florida. (SG)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Grade 5