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Witte, Priscilla G. – Reading Teacher, 2016
This formative and design study examined how the Complex Text Analysis (CTA) instructional approach provided support for first-grade students to increase their comprehension of texts of increasing complexity. The students in the diverse class participated in weekly lessons during which fictional texts were read aloud and analyzed in terms of key…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 1, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Sidekli, Sabri – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The aim of written expression studies is to have students explain their knowledge, feelings, ideas and imaginations in a correct and effective manner. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of story map on story writing skills of first grade teacher candidates who study at the Department of Elementary Education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Grammar, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement
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Schachter, Rachel E.; Craig, Holly K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: This study examined child production of narrative features and of African American English (AAE) during a wordless storybook oral narrative task. Method: Participants were 30 AAE-speaking African American kindergarten and 1st grade students from low- and mid-socioeconomic status homes. Story grammar (SG), story literary technique (SLT),…
Descriptors: African American Students, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Mahdavi, Jennifer N.; Tensfeldt, Lael – Preventing School Failure, 2013
Although early reading instruction focuses on phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle, research indicates that reading comprehension strategies can be effectively taught to young students. Peer-reviewed studies that employed experimental or quasi-experimental designs and included children between the ages of five and nine, some of whom had…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, At Risk Students
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Urbach, Jennifer – Education and Urban Society, 2012
Literacy is a socially constructed ideology (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Street, 1995). Current representations reduce literacy to standards, skill testing, and the five components of reading (NICHD, 2000). This view of literacy discounts the knowledge and skills of many students. This article examines the oral story of Aisha, an African American…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Emergent Literacy, Phenomenology, Culturally Relevant Education
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Stadler, Marie A.; Ward, Gay Cuming – Reading Horizons, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of props on children's narrative retells. Forty-two children in two comparable K/1 classrooms heard and practiced the same stories over eight weeks. This study found that the props had a positive effect on the children's use of descriptive language, but there was no effect on the number…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
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Stevens, Robert J.; Van Meter, Peggy; Warcholak, Nicholas D. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
The importance of emergent literacy skills as a foundation for proficient reading has led to the development of interventions to teach these skills. These interventions are particularly important for children from disadvantaged homes because they often lack the home literacy experiences necessary for building foundational literacy skills prior to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Listening Comprehension, Primary Education, Emergent Literacy
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Jones, Elaine F.; Nelson-Le Gall, Sharon – Negro Educational Review, 2009
Seventy-two first-, third-, and fifth-grade Black children heard stories about Black and White students engaged in computer, physical education, social studies, and spelling tasks at school. Children were asked to evaluate the ability, effort, experience of task difficulty, and likelihood of task success for the story characters. Findings…
Descriptors: African American Children, Childhood Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Story Grammar
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Webster, Paula Sunanon – Reading Teacher, 2009
This exploratory study describes the instructional strategies and related activities a Grade 1 teacher and I used to promote engagements with informational texts in one rural Jamaican primary school. Some of the instructional strategies and activities were bridging connections from the known to the unknown, reading aloud to increase content…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Story Grammar, Grade 1
Peterson-Karlan, George; Hourcade, Jack J.; Parette, Phil – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2008
In recent years effective instruction in reading for learners with physical and educational disabilities has received great attention in the schools. However, instruction in the corollary skill of writing has received considerably less emphasis. This review paper notes that through the use of assistive technology, students with a variety of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Writing Skills, Assistive Technology, Expository Writing
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Molina, Bogusia; Brigman, Greg; Rhone, Angela – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2003
A multicultural model for children in Grades K through 5 to foster skills needed for success is presented. The learning, living, and working (LLW) group work model focuses on three skill sets identified by multiple researchers over the past 30 years as necessary for success in school, relationships, and work. These three skill sets--learning…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Service Learning, Play, Academic Achievement