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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Read-aloud"”.
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Read-aloud activities in the kindergarten: The structure of kindergarten read-aloud events and the place of such read-aloud events in the kindergarten curriculum
… of this observational study was to examine how read-aloud events fit into the kindergarten curriculum, how these read-aloud events were conducted, and how teacher decisions about read-aloud events were made.
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A Description of the Read Aloud Practices of Elementary School Teachers
This study was designed to examine the read aloud practices of elementary school teachers. It also looked at those practices in regards to the differences exhibited between the different grade levels, and the teachers' different philosophies of reading instruction. Thirty-one teachers responded to …
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Utterances and Questions in Informational Book Read Aloud and Science Activity Sessions
… from a total of 10 informational text read aloud and 10 science activity sessions, across four science topics, with 15 third graders in five groups of three students. The overlying questions in the study were: What will the frequency of utterances be for the two treatments? What types …
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Improving student engagement in preschool classrooms with developmentally appropriate read aloud opportunities
… examine the effects of various presentations of read aloud and engagement in a preschool classroom in order to improve emergent literacy and listening comprehension. Engagement was looked at as well in respect to teacher expectations and what the research unveiled. The research took place over …
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The Effect of Repeated Read-Aloud Strategy on Preschool Children's Reading Comprehension
… was to determine the effect of the repeated read-aloud strategy on preschool children's reading comprehension. The repeated read-aloud strategy calls for a book to be read aloud at least twice to one or more individuals over several days or weeks. This study followed a quasi-experimental …
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Structured Read-Aloud in Middle School: the Initial Impact on Reading Assessment Scores
Read-aloud is a technique predominantly utilized at the elementary level. This study was designed to research the effectiveness of this technique at the middle school level, specifically, sixth grade students who were not receiving special education or additional reading intervention services. …
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Understanding influences on read-aloud book choices in K–2 classrooms: a Bronfenbrenner ecological systems perspective
… decision is which book to use for a classroom read-aloud. Research suggests that the classroom read-aloud is the optimal time to share books that reflect students' lived experiences and introduce them to others' lived experiences. This basic qualitative research study explores the factors that …
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Effectiveness of a Partial Read-Aloud Test Accommodation to Assess Reading Comprehension in Students with a Reading Disability
… the potential effectiveness of a partial read-aloud accommodation on the reading comprehension scores of third grade students classified as poor decoders. Past research has explored the use of an accommodation in which the test items are read aloud to students. These studies have …
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An Investigation into the Read-Aloud Program, Project Read, within the Public Elementary Schools of Wyoming County, New York
… among children and parents in the Project Read Program within these seven schools. This read-aloud program was designed to encourage patents to read aloud to their children each day. Each program was described and the participation within each grade level was compared to the overall …
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The Effects of Parent-Child Read Aloud and Comprehension Activities on the Second Grade Students' Comprehension Performance Using the QAR Evaluation Method
… research regarding the important role parent’s reading with their children plays on their reading and comprehension ability. The literature review examines theories that discuss the effects of parents and children reading with each other and other variables that may influence success.</p> …
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The Relationship among Concept Sorts, Storybook Reading, Language-Based Print Awareness, and Language Proficiency in the Vocabulary Learning of Diverse Kindergarten Children
… vocabulary instruction through storybook read alouds and concept sorts influenced vocabulary acquisition and the relationship among vocabulary and language-based print awareness and language proficiency. A non-random sample of three kindergarten classrooms participated in this study. …
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The Effects of Small Group Vocabulary Instruction on Second Grade Students' Expressive Vocabularies
… instruction above and beyond whole group, read aloud vocabulary instruction, on second grade students' expressive vocabularies. This experimental study reflected a between-subjects design as three treatment groups were compared using a pretest, posttest within subjects variable methodology. …
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An analysis of the self-evaluation strategy of reading one's drafts aloud as an aid to revision : a multi-modal approach
… approach investigated the relationship between reading aloud and the student revision process. Participants for this study were undergraduate juniors and seniors enrolled in any one of four sections of English 393 (Writing Competency Course) at Ball State University during the summer semester of …
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Kindergartners' Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… by kindergartners when retelling a story read to them from a book (read aloud) as compared to when a story was told orally, without a book (storytelling). The subjects of this study were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in Western New York. The students listened …
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Kindergartner’s Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… by kindergartners when retelling a story read to them from a book (read aloud) as compared to when a story was told orally, without a book (storytelling). The subjects of this study were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in Western New York. The students listened …
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