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Waller, Rachael; Dahle-Huff, Kari – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2023
Educators in rural settings experience many unique professional circumstances due to the rural context of their schools; one such unique circumstance is professional development opportunities that are unavailable locally. Rural reading specialists have limited opportunities for local professional development as well as limited opportunities for…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers, Reading Consultants
Cydnee Clarke Patterson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student success is closely related to student engagement and literacy instruction, which can positively or negatively impact a student. It has been documented that children motivated to read have a strong sense of reading efficacy and academic competence (Wigfield et al., 2015). This research study addressed the skills needed by literacy…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Best Practices, Elementary School Students, Learner Engagement
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Kucan, Linda; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Reading Psychology, 2023
This article describes a literacy methods course designed to introduce reading specialist candidates to research-based practices for comprehension instruction. Specifically, this article focuses on a sequence of assignments and class sessions within that course that introduced theoretical perspectives about comprehension processes and how those…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Reading Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
Tom Knutson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Millions of children in the United States struggle with reading acquisition, many of whom are identified with developmental dyslexia (DD). Although experimental research indicates that evidence-based reading interventions can bring many of these children to average-range reading skills, such promising outcomes are not commonly achieved within K-12…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Dyslexia, Reading Consultants, Students with Disabilities
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Rosheim, Kay M.; Tamte, Kristi G. – Reading Psychology, 2022
Policy, mandating early screening for dyslexia and use of specific interventions, is increasing throughout the United States. The authors designed a descriptive case study to learn what impact policies have on practice and how literacy specialists, trained in both comprehensive and structured literacy approaches, provide support for students. Data…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Screening Tests, Dyslexia, Early Intervention
Laurie Ann Fine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Learning to read is a primary task of students at the beginning of their elementary years. For some students, learning to read is a struggle. Support for struggling students often comes from reading specialists who can provide further support beyond the classroom through Title I services. Support has not been consistent since March 2020, due to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties
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Mahaffey, Abbie; Wolfe, Zora; Ciampa, Katia – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2020
Specialized literacy professionals, guided by the International Literacy Association's (ILA) Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals 2017, fulfill many roles within the elementary school setting to support the literacy development of students. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to investigate elementary principals'…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Expectation
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Luetkemeyer, Jennifer; Jordan, Rebecca – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This mixed methods study reports on seven library science and reading education students' experiences before, during, and after a small newly developed shortterm interdisciplinary study abroad, and its effects on their intercultural sensitivity. The evidence collected in this study affirms our belief in the potential for experiential learning,…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, College Students, Student Experience, Interdisciplinary Approach
Brooke Elaine Stebler – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This paper provides a case study of two elementary science teachers' perspectives on science literacy and the role a reading specialist can play by providing them with a personalized professional development program. This paper seeks to gain insights into two research questions: (1) What beliefs do two focus third grade teachers hold about science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Beliefs, Multiple Literacies
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Pickard, Amy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
Federal accountability policies requiring rapid, measurable outcomes have increasingly shaped the nature and type of public literacy services available to adults. However, little empirical research has explored the impact of accountability policies on program practice in adult basic education, and almost no research has focused on the effect on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Reading Difficulties, Educational Policy
Roshni K. Shah – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this Action Research study was to investigate the curricula used by Readers' Workshop teachers at an independent day school and the successes and barriers of having an external reading consultant provided by the program. The study compared the relationship between an external reading consultant with the desire of an in-house…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Consultants, Faculty Development
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Hill, K. Dara; Shooshanian, Alexandra – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This study examined an in-service teacher's enactment of code-meshing and code-switching pedagogies in a clinical summer reading clinic, as a requirement for a reading specialist program. Thus, the enactment of code-meshing pedagogies was based upon embracing the students' use of African American English (AAE) in academic writing contexts and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Summer Programs, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
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Pletcher, Bethanie C.; Hudson, Alida K.; John, Lini; Scott, Alison – Reading Teacher, 2019
Serving both teachers and students in a hybrid literacy professional role requires thoughtful planning and reflection. In this article, the authors reflect on their work over the course of one school year to determine how to manage time effectively to combine the job descriptions of reading specialist and literacy coach. Strategies are presented…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Reading Teachers, Specialists, Teacher Role
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Rissling, Karen; Kucan, Linda – Reading Horizons, 2018
In this cross-case study, we examined how two reading specialist candidates negotiated their yearlong practicum experiences in relation to university coursework and their previous teaching experience. Data sources included interviews, weekly teaching logs, and field observations. Findings reported in extended vignettes reveal how both interns were…
Descriptors: Practicums, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction, Intervention
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Nilsson, Nina L. – Reading Horizons, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the self-efficacy beliefs of 25 literacy specialist candidates in three key leadership areas before and after 15-week internships in schools. The three leadership areas, identified by university faculty as important to the leadership role of literacy specialists in schools today, are: 1)…
Descriptors: Literacy, Specialists, Self Efficacy, Leadership Effectiveness
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