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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 Qualitative Multiple Case Study Exploring How the Lives of High School Male Students Enrolled in an Alternative Education Program Mediate Their Reading and Writing Inside The English Classroom
- Author
- Gates, Lily
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Secondary, Reading, Education
- Description
- Historically, male students have been known to score lower than their female counterparts in reading and writing on standardized measures of academic success. While scholars, teachers, and even policymakers have attempted to explain and mitigate t...
- 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
- Do You See Yourself In Multicultural Literature? Seeking Self-reflections From Black Students
- Author
- Thomas, April
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading, Education
- Description
- In the United States, Muhammad (2020) explains how Black students who attend schools have a greater potential for success when they see themselves represented in the curriculum and when their cultural, gender, and racial identities are affirmed. T...
- 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
- Investigating the Influence of Literacy Coaching as Embedded PD on Teacher Instruction
- Author
- Mauzy, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading
- Description
- Improving elementary student reading achievement has been a well-defined goal of many federal and state educational initiatives over the last several decades. To that end, vast amounts of resources have been funneled into professional development ...
- 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...