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Title: School Scheduling and At-Risk Students: Looped Perspectives for Academic Support
Author: Kester, Kyle
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: KYLE R. KESTER. School scheduling and at-risk students: Looped perspectives for academic support. Students are graduating without requisite skills needed for life beyond high school- or not graduating at all (Institute of Education, 2014; New Amer...

Title: THE MAGIC OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
Author: Morris, Julia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Reading
Description: With the contemporary scandals that currently characterize university-sanctioned athletics and student athlete participants, this study is aimed at using Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s Harry Potter series, as exemplary of young adult literature, as a g...

Title: Teacher candidates’ experiences with clinical teaching in reading instruction: A comparison between the professional development school environment and the non-professional development school environment.
Author: Hopper, Cynthia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: Teacher candidates experience a variety of school settings when enrolled in teacher education methods courses. Candidates report varied experiences when in public school classrooms. This dissertation investigated clinical experiences of teacher ca...

Title: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding the Role of Technology in Literacy Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study
Author: McIntyre, Beverly
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading, Education
Description: The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of teachers' beliefs about the role of technology in their literacy instruction in the context of one elementary school with a technology-rich environment by investigating those beliefs ...

Title: The Effects of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Instruction on Standardized Reading Test Scores of Third Grade Students
Author: Green, Susan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Despite many school reform initiatives designed to ensure reading proficiency for all students, recent reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveal that only 37 percent of fourth grade students and only 34 percent of ...

Title: The Effects of Systematic and Explicit Instruction with Shared Stories on Comprehension and Generalization of Responding During Book Club for Students with Severe Disabilities
Author: Kemp-Inman, Amy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Reading
Description: The present study used a multiple probe across participants design to examine the effects of systematic and explicit instruction to teach students with severe disabilities (SD) to comprehend and discuss grade-aligned literature. The text was adapt...

Title: The Effects of an Interactive Vocabulary Strategy on Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Word Learning
Author: Latham, Kendall
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: ABSTRACTKENDALL KISER LATHAM. The effects of an interactive strategy on teachers' and students' perceptions of word learning. (Under direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)It is a well established fact that the level and degree of vocabulary knowledge plays a...

Title: The Impact of Teachers' Knowledge and Professional Development Experiences on the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices they Implement in Literacy
Author: Kavel, Rebecca
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: ABSTRACT With substantial demographic shifts in the U.S. student population, today’s teachers educate growing numbers of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (Kena, Aud, & Johnson, 2010). While these students bring an ab...

Title: The effect of digital word study on fifth graders' vocabulary acquisition, retention, and motivation: A mixed-methods approach
Author: Yearta, Lindsay
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: ABSTRACTLINDSAY SHERONICK YEARTA. The effect of digital word study on fifth graders' vocabulary acquisition, retention, and motivation: A mixed methods approach. (Under the direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)Vocabulary and comprehension are so inextricabl...

Title: USING THE MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWING AND PEER DISCUSSION TO RETAIN TERMINOLOGY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
Author: Kasay, Theresa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Reading, Science--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare and evaluate two types of vocabulary interventions using grade 9 physics vocabulary terms using two lists of 10 words. A quasi-experimental crossover research design was used to compare the two...

Title: When the Script Hits the Plan: Using Author's Chair to inform instructional practices within a scripted literacy program
Author: Johnson, Brianne
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: This qualitative case study conducted in a first grade classroom examined the influence of the social interactions that occur during the Author’s Chair (an element of a Writer’s Workshop instructional framework) on a teacher’s instructional decisi...