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Download full textRedfield, Doris L. – 1981
The comparative achievement effects of three types of worksheets across reading ability was investigated in fifth grade students of varying reading ability. Based on reading achievement scores, the students were divided equally into three levels (high, middle, and low) and assigned to worksheet treatment groups. The worksheets were designed to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedBabbs, Patricia J. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Concludes that using a reading plan sheet and prompting cards helped fourth grade students increase their literal recall. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedYeazell, Mary I. – Reading Psychology, 1982
Indicates that including philosophical skills in the reading program of fifth-grade students led to improved reading comprehension achievement for both above and below average readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 5
Blachowicz, Camille L. Z.; And Others – 1990
A study was conducted in an effort to better understand what assumptions and strategies students bring with them to the task of dictionary use as well as what knowledge they take away from it. Data were collected in three middle-class school systems in the suburbs of a large, Midwestern city. Participants were 55 fourth-grade students ranking…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classroom Research, Dictionaries, Grade 4
Bricker, Elizabeth J. – 1989
A study was conducted to show that there would be no difference between two samples' abilities to complete a hands-on science project when one is provided with advance organizers and the other is not. The sample of students were second, third, and fourth graders from the science program in Piscataway Township Schools in New Jersey. The…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Grade 2
Brennan, Alison – 1990
This study was conducted to determine the effect that hands-on, creative activity using the Language Experience Approach would have on language usage in students' written stories. Twenty-five fifth grade students were randomly divided into three sample groups. Sample A received hands-on, creative stimulus and art materials; Sample B looked at and…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Language Experience Approach
PDF pending restorationPage, William D.; Pinnell, Gay Su – 1979
Based on the premise that comprehension must be the true and final goal of all instruction in reading, this book is designed to provoke teachers' reflections about their own ideas, reading, language, and experiences as teachers of reading comprehension and to help them base their teaching decisions on a knowledge of theory and research about how…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Language Acquisition
