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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Literacy strategies"”.
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Integrating Literacy Strategies into the Mathematics Classroom
… content with the new CCSS as well as to present literacy strategies that may better prepare students for college or career. The Pythagorean Theorem unit is broken into meaningful lessons that may help students better understand the concepts. It also provides research based literacy strategies …
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Literacy Strategies for Reading and Understanding Nonfiction Texts in the Elementary Grades
… the question, what are the most effective literacy strategies teachers can use to better teach the reading of nonfiction texts to elementary students? Data collection was accomplished by gathering academic, peer reviewed articles and scholarly texts containing information on teaching …
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Literacy Strategies for Increasing a Kindergartener’s Letter Identification and Letter Sound Recognition: A Self-Study
… research study I explored best early childhood literacy practices and approaches to use to aid in early childhood students’ acquisition of early literacy skills. This study was conducted as a self-study to answer the question what are the literacy strategies and best practices that are effective …
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The Relationship Between the Next Generation Content Area Reading Professional Development Program on the Effectiveness of Teaching Literacy Strategies in High School Biology Classes
… teachers and their ability to implement reading strategies with science content effectively. The context of this inquiry is a mid-sized public school district that has implemented the program since 2006 at the middle and high school level with content area teachers. This study demonstrates that …
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Teacher Perspectives on Content Literacy in Elementary Schools
… area teachers are expected to incorporate literacy strategies in their classrooms, despite the fact that all content area teachers do no attend professional learning communities to learn effective literacy strategies. This study is needed because many content area teachers lack the …
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The effectiveness of literacy professional development provided to a high school faculty
… (PD) provided to a high school faculty on literacy strategies. Student achievement data of 9th and 10th graders collected before the literacy professional development training began was compared to the post-intervention achievement data (NWEA). The research was able to determine if the …
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Moving To A District Balanced Literacy Program: A Change Leadership Plan
… reform model Success For All (SFA) to a balanced literacy framework within Harmony District 841. The framework advocated for balanced literacy instruction that supported the integration of authentic reading and writing experiences, application of literacy strategies and skills, implementation of a …
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Dueling Perspectives on School to Home Literacy
… the different perspectives are on how to enhance literacy at the home along with what home literacy strategies parents, teachers, and principals would like for the school or district to provide. The goal of this research study is to help inform ways to support my students’ parents in closing the …
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Teaching to Think & Read Like a Historian
This study explores how a disciplinary literacy framework could impact adolescent comprehension in the content area of social studies. I collected qualitative data by recording interviews with five high school social studies teachers, while also analyzing the school’s curriculum and its integration …
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An Evaluation of Educator Preparedness in Content Area and Disciplinary Literacies in the High School Classroom
… exists between the content area and disciplinary literacy is how content area and disciplinary literacy strategies and educator preparedness to teach those components to fit together to further student achievement. The purpose of my study was to evaluate if educators are prepared to teach content …
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Laying the Foundation to Improve Literacy in a K-12 Islamic School Through the Introduction of a Professional Learning Community: A Formative Evaluation
… of the PLC, and focuses on teachers’ literacy instruction skills. A formative evaluation approach was used to monitor and assess progress and encourage teachers’ ownership of their learning. Teachers collaborated in large and smaller grade or subject area PLC groups to identify, chart, …
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An after-school literacy program : investigating the experiences of students with literacy difficulties, their volunteer tutors, and the tutors' transition into the teaching profession
… institutions to provide students with literacy skills, and teachers with the instructional supports necessary to facilitate this skill acquisition. Questions were posed to gain information concerning the efficacy ofteaching literacy strategies to students with learning difficulties, the …
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Teaching Strategies That Support Emergent Literacy: Effects of a Collaborative Training Model
… childhood teachers' acquisition of teaching strategies that are linked to young children's emergent literacy development. The impact of the intervention on teachers' beliefs, the overall classroom literacy environment, and children's literacy development also was investigated. Participants …
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Implementing Peer Coaching in a State Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program: An Autoethnography
… of pre-kindergarten teachers' emergent literacy strategies in the Greater New Orleans area. This autoethnography employed the author as the research tool in order to understand the researcher's personal self within the context of the professional development. The guiding question of this …
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A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia
… international aid were provided as development strategies in Latin America to improve gender equality in education and literacy rates during the 1990s. Female literacy was view as an important goal in obtaining human and economic development in the region of Latin America. Guatemala and Bolivia …
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Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of the Impact of Content Literacy Strategy Instruction on Teaching and Learning
Reading researchers agree that content literacy strategies are beneficial in helping students learn. However, teachers remain resistant to teaching the strategies. Additionally, many students, even at the college level, lack the learning strategies necessary to experience academic success. This …
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The Essence of the Distributed Leadership Experience of a High School Literacy Coaching Team: A Phenomenological Study
… is a phenomenological study of a high school literacy coaching team’s experience during the 2010-2011 school year, the first year of its existence. As a distributed leadership organizational routine, the practice of literacy coaching was adopted by a large suburban high school to promote its …
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The effects of professional development for early childhood educators on emergent literacy
… childhood educators by measuring the emergent literacy skills of their students. The second purpose was to begin to establish concurrent validity for a fairly new skills-based instrument with an established norm-referenced instrument.A pretest-posttest design to assess the children's emergent …
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Coaching Secondary Teachers To Engage Students By Incorporating Storytelling Into Content-Area Instruction
… called to action to find ways of improving the literacy achievement of today’s youth in response to the escalating number of students exiting high school unprepared for postsecondary educational programs and the workforce. Literacy coaching, as an embedded professional development model is one …
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Literacy in the 21st Century: supporting struggling adolescent readers
… readers regarding contributing factors to their literacy experiences and success. The theoretical framework used to make meaning included: (a) high schools and literacy, (b) school culture, (c) motivation, (d) technology, and (e) literacy as the gateway of life. The qualitative case study …
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