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Meredith O'Neil – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how reading teachers in southern urban schools described their use of prior knowledge and text clues in instructing high functioning ASD students in their use of inferencing to improve their reading comprehension. There were three research questions used in this study: RQ1: How do…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Urban Schools, Inferences
Monroe, Ronald J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Supplemental instructional methods are needed to help students achieve grade-level proficiency in reading and literacy in inner-city elementary schools. Teachers employ music concepts and skills during literacy instruction as a motivator for students to acquire proficiency in literacy and reading. Interviews, informal observations and focus group…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Music, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
Tatum, Alfred W.; Muhammad, Gholnecsar E. – Urban Education, 2012
Advancing the literacy development of African American males in contexts that are characteristically urban has been a challenging task for educators across the P-12 spectrum. Frames that have been traditionally used to improve the reading achievement of African American males have not reversed trends in reading achievement that find many of these…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Urban Schools, Reading Achievement
Parker, Celeste – ProQuest LLC, 2011
With illiteracy in the United States at a staggering rate, school districts are spending more and more instructional dollars searching for intervention programs to address students' reading deficits. While, in the past, school districts have received funds through various state funding sources, the financial forecast for school districts is no…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Reading Programs, Intervention
Rasinski, Timothy; Samuels, S. Jay; Hiebert, Elfrieda; Petscher, Yaacov; Feller, Karen – Reading Psychology, 2011
Reading fluency has been identified as a key component in effective literacy instruction (National Reading Panel, 2000). Instruction in reading fluency has been shown to lead to improvements in reading achievement. Reading fluency instruction is most commonly associated with guided repeated oral reading instruction. In the present retrospective…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency

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
Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Hosp, John L.; Smartt, Susan; Dole, Janice A. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2008
The purpose of this case study is to describe the challenges one coach faced during the initial implementation of a coaching initiative involving 33 teachers in an urban, high-poverty elementary school. Reading coaches are increasingly expected to play a key role in the professional development efforts to improve reading instruction in order to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Focus Groups, Reading Achievement
Piggins, Carol Ann – Instructor, 1972
How one teacher successfully conducted an individualized program in an inner-city school. (Editor)
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Elementary School Students, Individualized Reading, Reading Improvement
Friedland, Ellen S.; Truscott, Diane M. – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2005
This study examined how to propel the independent learning process of young adults through the development of learning awareness and personal commitment to improvements in reading. Preservice middle and secondary teachers enrolled in an undergraduate literacy course provided one-on-one tutoring for seventh-grade struggling readers from an urban…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Independent Study, Grade 7, Tutoring
Flynt, E. Sutton; Cooter, Jr., Robert B. – Reading Teacher, 2005
The authors describe a content-reading instruction scaffolding called The Memphis Comprehension Framework, which was found to be effective in significantly improving higher order comprehension skills for students in grades 4 through 6 in two major U.S. urban school districts. This model is especially potent in improving students' higher order…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement