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Are They Really Reading? A Descriptive Study of First Graders during Independent Reading
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Moses, Lindsey; Beth Kelly, Laura – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
This article provides an analysis of how a large, diverse Title I class of 1st-grade students spent independent reading time when an exemplary teacher provided instructional supports to foster engaged independent reading. The data derived from observational checklists that documented students' literacy-related, off-task, and transition behaviors;…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Grade 1, Reading Instruction
Comprehension Literacy Improvement Program Implementation and Balanced Literacy Impact on Elementary Students
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Gough, Timothy Jerome – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine how teachers in an urban school district implemented Comprehensive Literacy Improvement Program (CLIP) and balanced literacy framework in second through fifth grade classrooms by exploring the evidence of implementation of guided reading strategies. Instructional delivery, training methodology, phonemic…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Program Implementation, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools
Improving Reading Comprehension of At-Risk High-School Students: The ART of Reading Program
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McCallum, R. Steve; Krohn, Katherine R.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Hilton-Prillhart, Angela; Hopkins, Michael; Waller, Steven; Polite, Fritz – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
Participants (115 low-socioeconomic-status [SES], inner-city, high-school students) were exposed to three reading conditions: (1) a control condition in which students silently read brief selected passages; (2) an experimental condition in which students were prompted to perform a three-part (Ask, Read, and Tell [ART]) comprehension enhancement…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, High School Students, Low Income Groups, Urban Schools
Lessons Learned in Dreamland: How a Small Urban Charter School Overcame Start-Up Woes to Increase Reading Scores 28 Percent
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Carter, Carolyn J. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2011
Charter school administrators weathered start-up woes, among them challenging students with unmet needs, verbal assaults, dwindling student enrollment, and a first-year budget deficit exceeding $200,000 to implement a reading improvement strategy that holds promise for helping at-risk students read better, a point particularly underscored…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Charter Schools, Small Schools
Literacy Coaching for Change
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Blachowicz, Camille L. Z.; Obrochta, Connie; Fogelberg, Ellen – Educational Leadership, 2005
An urban school district was able to improve its students' reading achievement substantially by implementing a variety of literary coaching models. The six literary coaching process strategies used by schools are discussed.
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Urban Schools, School Districts, Models
Prior Knowledge Activation: Inducing Text Engagement in Reading to Learn.
Spires, Hiller A.; And Others – 1990
A study investigated the effects of a prior knowledge activation strategy on students' ability to successfully engage in the ongoing comprehension of extended text. Data were elicited from 79 ninth graders who were enrolled in a required social studies class in an urban high school in the Southeast. Equal numbers of high and low readers were…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Grade 9, High Schools, Prior Learning