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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION IN HIGH SCHOOL COMMERCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMS
Author: Vintinner, Jean
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Education, Secondary
Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the teachers' manuals of the leading commercial high school reading programs to determine the extent to which they provide effective vocabulary instruction as advocated by the leading professional organizat...

Title: A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author: Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Reading
Description: This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: An Investigation of Literature Circles and Critical Literacy: Differentiated Learning Opportunities for High-Ability Students
Author: Soares, Lina
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading, Curriculum planning
Description: ABSTRACTThis qualitative research study investigated how literature circles provide an optimal differentiated learning context for high-ability (sixth-grade) readers that centered on the connection between critical pedagogy and collaborative readi...

Title: DIFFERENT APPROACH, DIFFERENT RESULTS: A STUDY OF MASTERY LEARNING INSTRUCTION IN A DEVELOPMENTAL READING CLASS AT AN URBAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Author: Hill-Miller, Patricia
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Adult education
Description: ABSTRACTPATRICIA L. HILL-MILLER. Different approach, different results: A study of mastery learning instruction in a developmental reading class at an urban community college. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT RICKELMAN) Mastery learning is an in...

Title: DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE READING PROCESSES OF GRADE SIX STUDENTS IN A LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM ENGAGING WITH INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ONLINE
Author: Wylie, Alonda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Researchers suggest that youth involvement with digital texts and online media is essential to developing critical readers and writers in the twenty-first century (Alvermann, 2008; Buckinghann, 2003; Doering et al., 2007; Sperling & DiPardo, 2008;...

Title: Digital Collaborative Literacy, Critical Literacy, and Writing for Social Justice: A Case Study of Meaningful Learning in a First Grade Classroom
Author: Stover, Katherine
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, Language arts
Description: The need for twenty-first century learning skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and the use of technology are paramount to success in today's classroom. The purpose of this study was to explore what happened when childre...

Title: EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM, STRUCTURED TEACHER TRAINING IN ACTIVE READING ON LANGUAGE AND READING OUTCOMES OF STUDENTS AT RISK AND NOT AT RISK FOR READING FAILURE, TEACHER IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVE READING, AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF READ ALOUD PRACTICES.
Author: Cleaver, Samantha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: The current study evaluated the effects of short-term, structured teacher training in Active Reading on student outcomes in listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. Active Reading is an approach to whole group read aloud tha...

Title: Effects of Peer-Delivered Fluency Instruction on the Oral Reading Fluency of High School Students with Mild Disabilities
Author: Hitt, Sara Beth
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Reading
Description: Given the many challenges at the high school level to incorporate intensive fluency and comprehension interventions into high school courses, there remains a need for more extensive research on reading interventions, as well as the method of imple...

Title: Effects of task training on kindergarten students' performance on early literacy measures
Author: Mackiewicz, Sara
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Reading, Educational tests and measurements
Description: The use of early literacy screening measures helps determine which students are at risk for future reading difficulties. However, there has been some recent concern related to the classification validity of screening measures (Hintze, Ryan, & Ston...

Title: HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
Author: Dymes, Laurie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Literacy provides people with intellectual tools to question, challenge, understand, disagree, and arrive at informed perspectives and is a reflection of cultural values and meaning-making for adolescents within their community. By understanding t...

Title: Into the Figured Worlds of First Grade Teachers: Perceptions and Enactments of Instructional Grouping and Differentiation for English Learners in New South Classroom Contexts
Author: Plaisance, Michelle
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Reading, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: The seven-month participatory qualitative inquiry (Emerson, Fretz, & Shaw, 2011) explored how a first grade team in a metro Charlotte elementary school perceived and enacted instructional grouping and differentiation for English Learners within a ...

Title: Literacy coaches: A case study of beginning teacher perceptions of literacy coaching
Author: Bambrick, Jennifer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perspectives of beginning teachers regarding their work with literacy coaches. The study took place at two elementary schools in a suburban school district in the Southeastern United St...

Title: PHONEMIC AWARENESS INSTRUCTION IN ONE DISTRICT’S KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW CLOSELY CLASSROOM PRACTICES REFLECT RESEARCH-BASED BEST PRACTICES
Author: Farrow, Joyce
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how closely kindergarten teachers in a high performing school district in North Carolina instruct students towards mastery of phonemic awareness skills. This study explored to what degree t...

Title: Reading for your life : the impact of reading and writing during the siege of Sarajevo
Author: Ornat, Natalie
Subjects--Topical: Libraries, Reading, Psychic trauma
Description: In the spring of 1992, the city of Sarajevo was surrounded by nationalist Serb troops and bombarded with shells, bullets, and terror for four long years. Isolated from the world, Sarajevans found a refuge and a freedom that took them beyond their ...

Title: SCHOOLING CONTEXTS AND ACHIEVEMENT: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOL COMPOSITION AND NORTH CAROLINA END OF GRADE READING TEST SCORES OF HISPANIC THIRD GRADERS
Author: Bowden, Kendra
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Educational tests and measurements
Description: Nationally, Hispanic achievement lags behind non-Hispanic peers in reading proficiency scores. The gap in achievement persists through subsequent grade levels for Black, Hispanic, and poor students of all races. Current school environments present...

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...