Recently added articles from Reading Improvement:
From isolation to combination: a multilevel, multicomponent approach to developing literacy skills of students with cognitive impairment.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Comprehensive reviews of literature published between 19922006 describing reading instruction for students with cognitive impairment indicated a status quo in reading instruction that focused on isolated components of reading. What has changed over the same period, however, are the ...
Reading comprehension in the science curriculum.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Students may experience difficulty in reading science subject matter. It is very important that each comprehends well when reading content in science as well as understanding these ideas indepth. The teacher needs to help each student in comprehending when being engaged in reading to ...
Turkish primary school teachers' constructive thinking styles.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Teachers' thinking styles can play an important role in teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to define Turkish primary teachers' constructive thinking (CT) styles and to compare them with regard to variables of professional work experience and age. A relational model was ...
The effect of reading comprehension abilities primary school students over their problem solving achievement.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In this research study whether 2nd grade primary school student's reading comprehension ability has a positive effect over their problem solving achievement or not has been analyzed. This research has been carried out over 43 students that have similar capacities, attending 2-A ...
The presence of the U.S. father as an enhancement for his children's reading achievement: masculine influence or a second parent?(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The last quarter century has been an interval of shifting values and expectations of the father within the family structure. Discussion and rhetoric have often been at a macro-level in terms of philosophy and social contracts. This paper, however, addresses a unique facet of fathering ...
Functions of reading and adults' reading interests.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Using a nationally representative sample in Taiwan, this study found that adult Taiwanese read non-narrative books more often than narrative books. More importantly, this study established associations between functions of reading and reading interests to help gain a better understanding ...
Using read-alouds with culturally sensitive children's books: a strategy that can lead to tolerance and improved reading skills.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Using research based reading strategies to enhance students' reading abilities may not be enough to motivate all students to read. To reach students from different backgrounds, it is important for teachers to select children's books that represent various cultures accurately. If students ...
End of intervention Reading Recovery[R] decisions and subsequent achievement.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... This research investigated the relationship between end of Reading Recovery intervention decisions and predicting later reading achievement. Regression analysis was used to determine if the decision to end intervention could be used to predict (a) student performance-level categories ...
Training new content area secondary teachers to teach literacy: the university/public school partnership.
Mar 22, 2009; ... A high number of secondary students struggle with literacy. This adolescent literacy educational crisis affects students after they graduate both in college and in their employment. One resolution for this problem is to train secondary content area preservice teachers in strategies for ...
An analysis of the use of critical thinking skills in reading and language arts instruction.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... This study was designed to compare teachers' and administrators' perceptions of teachers' ability to promote critical thinking skills and students' abilities to use critical thinking skills in the Reading and Language Arts instruction. Teachers' methods for teaching reading and language ...
An investigation of the impact of racially diverse teachers on the reading skills of fourth-grade students in a one race school.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Despite efforts from the No Child Left Behind Act (2000) aimed at better educating minority children, the African American-Caucasian test score gap persists. The population of public school students is increasingly diverse; yet, 90% of public school teachers are Caucasian females ...
Read and reach the whole child: using adapted/created/enhanced (ACE) stories for content representation.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Reading and writing are academic skills with which students with intellectual disabilities/cognitive impairments may have great difficulty. Teachers cognizant of ways of representing content to be taught in a comprehensible manner can help children with cognitive impairments and/or ...
Conundrums in the differentiated literacy classroom.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Based on extensive professional experiences in working with literacy teachers to develop their skills in differentiated instruction, the author identifies six conundrums or puzzling challenges that frequently arise as teachers adopt a more responsive approach to meeting the needs of ...
A reading program to narrow the achievement gap.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Due to the No Child Left Behind legislation (PL 107-110, reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), schools are looking for reading programs that will push students into reading proficiency on standardized tests. Programs tend to be expensive, require specific ...
Study of elementary students' attitudes about writing after a cross-age tutoring experience.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... This study examined second and fourth grade elementary students' attitudes about writing before and after their participation in a cross-age tutoring writing program. The administration and analysis of pretest and posttest writing attitude surveys were performed with treatment and ...
Analysis of expression errors in the writings of primary school students in terms of certain variables.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The basic aim of mother tongue education is to enable students to understand what they read or listen to accurately and to express their thought, feelings and wishes efficiently. In this study, expression errors in the writings of primary school 8th grade students in terms of gender and ...
SMA--Say/Mean/Apply: a strategy for unlocking meaning.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Say/Mean/Apply (SMA) comprehension strategy introduced in this article gives children the opportunity to unlock the meaning of passages through interpreting and connecting the content of the passages to their own experiences. The SMA questions provide a simple organizational structure ...
Gender issues in young children's literature.
Sep 22, 2008; ... In recent decades, extensive studies from diverse disciplines have focused on children's developmental awareness of different gender roles and the relationships between genders. Among these studies, researchers agree that children's picture books have an increasingly significant place in ...
These are my goals: academic self-regulation in reading by middle-school students.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In this exploratory investigation, middle school students described primarily favorable experiences while forming personalized learning goals and monitoring academic progress in reading. Students articulated such benefits as directing their learning toward worthwhile ends, using their time ...
The efficacy of a supplemental multisensory reading program for first-grade students.(Orton-Gillingham based multisensory reading program )(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education's supplementary Orton-Gillingham based reading program across three schools in a single school district. Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) assessments were used to ...