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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Intensive reading"”.
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The Effect of Intensive Reading Intervention on California State Testing Scores in a Small Rural Middle School
<p>This study evaluated the effectiveness of reading intervention on California Standardized Test (CST) scores that was implemented in a rural community in Northern California. The study addressed the challenge of meeting the objective of increasing student performance in English language arts on …
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Task-based Learning Strategies for Developing Students’ Textual Understanding and Critical Thinking Abilities in An English Intensive Reading Class
… thinking ability and improving students' reading comprehension ability. Through a semester of researching, it is found that: Teaching Trilogy mode can help students form the habit of critical thinking. Task-based Learning approach used in groups can help students overcome the pressure from …
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The academic effect of an intensive reading intervention program at a rural California middle school using data from a one year program
… the purpose of this study is to compare the CST reading proficiency scores of socio-economically challenged middle school students who participated in one of three interventions: low reading students who participated in an intensive reading program, low reading students who participated in the …
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Coming from different directions : A comparison of the eye movements of English L1 and Arabic L1 speakers reading in English and the implementation of an intensive reading intervention programme
… cognitive processes during first language (L1) reading and in the last few years it has become more common for applied linguists to use eye tracking technology to examine topics that had previously been investigated using off-line measures (Conklin & Pellicer-Sánchez, 2016). However, few eye …
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AN EVALUATION OF EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE TEACHING OF LITERATURE; ANOTHER YEAR’S EXPERIMENT IN THE ELEVENTH GRADE
… two prevailing methods of teaching literature: intensive and extensive. Nancy Coryell’s famous 1927 study titled “An Evaluation of Extensive and Intensive Teaching of Literature; A Year’s Experiment in Eleventh Grade” is considered the first major English education study, and attempts to …
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An Exploration Of The Impact Of Instructional Coaching
… included a Florida literacy coach and three Intensive Reading and three English Arts teachers. The research question is: How might instructional coaching impact the instruction of teachers as they seek to improve instruction? Data was collected through initial and exit surveys, interviews, …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING AND READING STRATEGIES ON READING SELF-EFFICACY
… investigation into the role that extensive reading and reading strategies play in the cultivation of reading self-efficacy. Conducted over the course of one academic year, how changes in reading self-efficacy translate into changes in reading comprehension was examined. In addition, the …
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The effects of iPads on the independent reading of high school students with learning disabilities
… whether or not the use of iPads for independent reading would enhance the reading motivation of ninth grade students with learning disabilities as measured by number of pages read and students' self-reported interest in reading in response to a survey. Its purpose is also to determine whether …
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The Novels of Mark Aldanov as Representative of the Genres of Bildungsromane, Historical and Philosophical Novels
… European, American and later Soviet and Russian reading public and critics, many aspects of his literary work still remain insufficiently-researched, and the personal archives of the writer were largely ignored. One such aspect which escaped attention of the literary scholars is the peculiar …
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A sense of place in selected African works by Doris Lessing read in conjunction with novels of education by contemporary white South African women writers
This study provides a more intensive reading of certain works by Doris Lessing set in Southern Africa than has yet been attempted, and reads them,• for the first time, in conjunction with a particular literary lineage within Southern African letters, the novel of education by white women. The works …
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Analysis of Literary Devices in Selected Novels of Severine Ndunguru
… study adapted a qualitative research design. An intensive reading of the novels was done by the researcher. An interview was also with the author, Mr. Severine Ndunguru. Moreover, both primary and secondary data were collected and utilized. The methods of data collection employed were content …
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An Investigation of the Effects of a Middle School Reading Intervention on School Dropout Rates
… of this study was to investigate the effects on reading achievement for middle school students after participation in a computer-based reading intervention program, READ 180, as well as the relationship of program participation to later dropout rates, compared to students enrolled in a …
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Identifying students at risk for academic failure: the application of a prereferral screening model including responsiveness to intervention
… the greatest need for remediation of their reading skills were provided an intensive reading intervention and the improvement in their reading skills relative to their peers was evaluated to determine each individual’s response to the intervention, as was the overall effectiveness of the …
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An Assessment of <em>READ 180</em> Regarding Its Association with the Academic Achievement of At-Risk Students in Sevier County Schools.
<p><em>READ 180</em> is an intensive reading intervention program designed to meet the needs of students whose reading achievement is below the proficient level. The program addresses individual learning styles through adaptive software, interesting literature, and direct instruction with reading …
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Development of Reading Fluency During an Extensive Reading Course Incorporating Reading Fluency Tasks
Reading approaches in Japan and other EFL settings have typically focused on accuracy at the expense of fluency. However, reading rate and fluency are important components of reading that are currently being neglected. A review of the literature reveals growing interest in investigating the …