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Arabo, Melody; Budd, Jonathan S.; Garrison, Shannon; Pacheco, Tabitha – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2017
Although it's been almost seven years since many states took the important step of elevating their academic standards by adopting the Common Core, teachers and administrators across the country still bemoan the lack of reliable information about which instructional materials are high-quality and best aligned to the new standards. One recent survey…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Reading Improvement, Writing Improvement
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Guenther, Leah – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
This research investigates the impact of teaching Shakespeare to below-grade-level readers in an English Language Arts classroom on Chicago's South Side. The students studied are five middle school boys who were observed over a two-year course of study under the same teacher who, after finding success with this method, found herself asking, how is…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Males, English Literature
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Hall, Leigh A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
The purpose of this year-long project was to examine an instructional framework intended to help middle school teachers create instruction that responds to students' reading identities while also helping students learn the skills they need to be successful readers. The project used a formative design approach in order to achieve 3 pedagogical…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Middle School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Middle School Students
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Union, Craig D.; Union, Lori Walker; Green, Tim D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study explored the effects of a portable technology intervention, the Nook Simple Touch eReader, on student performance in Reading and English/Language Arts when included as an integral part of the teaching and learning process in an elementary third-grade classroom. This study used the participating students' end-of-year second-grade scores…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Grade 3, Technology Uses in Education
Knight, Taneka L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
African American and Latino students attending Title I schools in the metropolitan Atlanta area were not reading on grade level. The majority of students are low performing readers and minimally met the reading comprehension requirements. The 2015 average 8th grade reading score for these students was 246 out of 500. This applied dissertation was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Minority Group Students, African American Students
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Fingon, Joan C. – Voices from the Middle, 2012
This article highlights the Wimpy Kid diary book series by Jeff Kenney and discusses how educators can increase their knowledge base and take advantage of integrating such highly visual and nontraditional texts within the reading and language arts curriculum to enhance students' vocabulary development and reading comprehension. The article…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Interests, Reading Processes, Vocabulary Development
Nachowitz, Marc – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this design-based experiment is two-fold: to see if classroom pedagogies can be developed to improve student achievement in English literature as well as prepare them for 21st Century literacies. Applying Bereiter and Scardamalia's theory of Knowledge Building to English curricula, this experiment tracked the progress of a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, English Literature, Language Arts
Lindberg, Evalynne W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose, Scope, and Method of Study. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the curricular and instructional approaches of 3 Oklahoma elementary schools that demonstrated success in promoting and/or sustaining improvement in reading achievement. This qualitative study relied on a multiple case design utilizing participants based on…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Teaching Methods, Curriculum, Elementary Schools
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Stevens, Robert L.; Starkey, Melanie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
The authors--a second grade classroom teacher and a university professor of education--decided to collaborate. Melanie wanted to find out if she could help her students increase their reading and writing comprehension by presenting a sequence of events in an activity (for example, the steps in building a house) and then have the students write the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Social Studies, Reading Improvement, Writing Improvement
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Nelson, J. Ron; Stage, Scott A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2007
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effects of contextually-based multiple meaning (i.e., words with multiple meanings) vocabulary instruction on the vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension of students. Third and 5th grade students received either contextually-based multiple meaning vocabulary instruction embedded in the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Arts, Vocabulary Development, Reading Improvement
Fleming, Denise M.; Unrau, Norman J.; Cooks, Jamal; Davis, John; Farnan, Nancy; Grisham, Dana L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
In Single Subject preservice programs across the U.S., literacy professors are coping with the demands of preparing their candidates to teach reading and writing across the content areas. The professors are challenged to establish a credible rationale for why teachers in content areas such as physical education, art, and music should be required…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Methods Courses, Secondary School Teachers, Reading Skills
ELEMENTARY READING COMMITTEE – 1964
THE IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION IN READING FOR EVERY CHILD IN THE ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS THE GOAL. TEACHERS OF INTERMEDIATE AS WELL AS PRIMARY LEVEL PUPILS WERE CONFRONTED WITH SEVERAL QUESTIONS--(1) HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES ARE PROVIDED FOR EACH PUPIL TO EXPRESS HIS IDEAS IN A DIGNIFIED FRAMEWORK TO ONE OR TWO OF HIS PEERS, TO HIS CLASS,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Language Arts, Reading Improvement
Goldsmith, Virginia G. – Grade Teacher, 1972
The author gives alternatives to the round robin technique of teaching reading. (MF)
Descriptors: Language Arts, Learning Processes, Reading Ability, Reading Improvement
Harris, Albert J. – Elem Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Improvement
Waterman, David C., Ed.; Gibbs, Vanita M., Ed. – 1974
These proceedings are published primarily for the purpose of helping teachers to improve their reading instruction. The contents include "Official Program"; "I Wish Children Literature" by Lee Bennett Hopkins, which discusses the importance of providing children with good reading materials; "Black English and Reading" by Ronald W. Bruton, which…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Conference Reports, Language Arts, Reading
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