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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Education, Elementary; Education, Reading"”.
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The effects of instruction clarifying story characters' internal states on primary students' story comprehension
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Will it work with my kids: Teachers' practical concept of effective reading instruction
This study explored six experienced, elementary classroom teachers' concept of effective reading instruction. In order to describe how teachers construct a repertoire of effective reading instruction practices, I observed reading instruction in each classroom and interviewed each teacher several …
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Teachers' evaluative decision-making for elementary reading instruction
All experienced teachers are primarily responsible for their own evaluation on a daily basis. Moreover, after the presentation of each lesson, teachers engage in an evaluation of that particular lesson's success. They reflect on which aspects of the lesson went well, and which aspects need to be …
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An ethnography of performance-based literacy assessment and classroom instruction
This year-long ethnographic study provides an in-depth view of one primary classroom teacher's use of mandated performance- and classroom-based literacy assessment in a first-second grade classroom. By describing the district's literacy instruction and assessment policies, and by interviewing key …
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A multidimensional investigation of the validity of a new large-scale reading assessment instrument: The reading portion of the Illinois Goal Assessment Program
… factor and a factor which contrasts reading rate and accuracy with narrative comprehension. Two elements of the IGAP failed to load on either factor: the literacy survey and the reading strategies measures.
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A case study of third-grade teacher's literacy instruction in a racially mixed classroom
… compared to what has been written about basal reading approaches, the whole-language approach, literature-based approaches, and culturally-relevant instruction. The data were collected across an academic year and included field notes from classroom observations, interview transcripts, and …
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Retellings and Semi-Structured Interviews for Assessing Reading Comprehension of Standardized Test Passages and of the Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress Passages as Compared to Scores on Multiple-Choice Test Items
The literature in reading comprehension points to a disparity between current knowledge about the reading process and current assessment practices. Prevalent theoretical views favor a constructivist cognitive framework in which text meanings are determined by a composite of reader-related factors …
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The role of collaboration in children's understanding of informational texts
… informational texts and complete a variety of reading-related tasks. The kinds of comprehension and monitoring strategies children employed in their reading were of particular interest, especially since they had little prior knowledge about the content of the curriculum--marine animals. …
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Learning vocabulary from context: Effects of focusing attention on individual words during reading
… of vocabulary knowledge during everyday reading has received attention by researchers in the attempt to explain the tremendous growth of children's vocabulary knowledge during their school years (Herman, Anderson, Pearson, & Nagy, 1987; McKeown, 1985; Nagy & Anderson, 1984; Nagy, …