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Burke, Edward Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2016
English Learners experience challenges related to comprehension of science text particularly at the high school level. The language of science differs significantly from that of conversation and expository text. Students benefit from collaborative interpretation of readings. Additionally, there appears to be a need to train adolescents in the oral…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Science Education, High School Students
Putnam, Lillian R.; Farber, Frances – 1982
A study compared selected language features of children in five different reading programs. Selected for study were two first grade classes from each of five urban school districts that were using either the Lippincott, Language Experience, Houghton Mifflin, Open Court, or the Ginn 720 basal reading programs. A prereading test was administered to…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Language Acquisition