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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Reading Comprehension Strategies"”.
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Investigating reading comprehension strategies and learning styles with eight year old children
… design, implementation and evaluation of a class reading intervention programme comprising of a non-fiction and a fiction component. In order to attempt to heighten the quality of teaching and learning in the area of reading comprehension, an innovative approach was used to design the programme. …
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A study of the English reading comprehension strategies utilised by level-one students at the University of Venda
… of this study was to investigate the English reading strategies utilised by level-one students at the University of Venda. The respondents in this study were three hundred and nine level-one students from various Schools in the University of Venda who were doing English Communication Skills …
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The Effect of the Educational Change Process Through the Implementation of the Learning-Focused Reading Comprehension Strategies In Blue Horizon School District: A Mixed Methods Study
… implementation of the Learning-Focused Schools Reading Comprehension Strategies in a South Carolina school district. This research was accomplished through the analysis of the four phases of the Fullan Model during the implementation process. Evidence exists that the school district represented …
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Analysis of Pre Test and Post Test Performance of Students in a Learning Center Model at the Elementary School Level
… impact of small group instruction using select reading comprehension strategies on student reading achievement comparing Measures of Academic Progress (MAPs) assessments from September 2014 to February 2015. The literature suggests that reading comprehension strategies and phonetic awareness …
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The Effects of Explicit Reading Strategy Instruction and Cooperative Learning on Reading Comprehension in Fourth Grade Students
… direct instruction and cooperative learning on reading comprehension in fourth grade students. A quasi-experimental design was used. There were six cognitive and three affective measures used to collect quantitative data. Cognitive measures included California State Test scores, Accelerated …
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Exploring the use of effective learning strategies to increase students' reading comprehension and test taking skills /
… instruction in how to use a repertoire of reading comprehension strategies and test taking skills when reading and responding to three types of questions (direct, inferential, critical). Specifically, the study examined whether providing students with a "model" of how to read and respond to …
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The Impact of a Text-Reader Support Program on Intermediate Students' Reading Comprehension
… of providing four Grade 7 and 8 students with reading difficulties with explicit instruction in the use of reading comprehension strategies while using text-reader software. Specifically, the study explored participants' combined use of a text-reader and question-answering comprehension …
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A Comparison of Aesthetic and Efferent Reading Strategies of College Students
… and document the use of efferent and aesthetic reading strategies, as used by both undergraduate and graduate college students enrolled in a course in developmental reading instruction. Twenty students were individually interviewed, each student attending two separate interviews: one which …
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Teaching the biography of Peal S. Buck: developing collaborative reading strategies for multilingual writers
… of using a collaborative method to teach reading comprehension strategies in English 112: Composition for Multilingual Students. As Kenneth Bruffee (1984; 1991), Margaret Mount (2014), Chiu-Hsin Lin (2007) and others have determined, there are many challenges English language learners face …
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Teachers’ Perceptions of Strategy Based Reading Instruction for Reading Comprehension
<p>Strategy based reading instruction helps teachers differentiate the teaching of reading. It also supports many types of readers by explicitly teaching and modeling reading comprehension strategies. The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of strategy based reading instruction …
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Using Literature Circles to Increase Readign Comprehension in Third Grade Elementary Students
<p>Reading comprehension strategies are important skills for a child to learn. Good strategies support struggling students to be more successful in all subjects at school as reading is the basis for subsequent mastery of most subjects (Bender & Larkin, 2003).</p> <p>This action research project …
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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
<p>The need for effective content area reading teachers have continued to increase since the introduction of one public school districts’ Content Area Reading Professional Development (CAR-PD) in 2006. In 2011, modifications were made to improve the program, and it became known as the Next …
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Kindergarteners' Concept Development in Science and Literacy Learning Through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)
… was integrated through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI). CORI is an instructional framework created to increase reading engagement by teaching reading comprehension strategies along with science concepts (Guthrie, et al., 1996). This study explored CORI at the Kindergarten …
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The Enhancing Reading Comprehension Performance using the Strategy of Highlighting Electronic Text
<p>Reading comprehension is a criterial skill that an individual must utilize to navigate in the twenty-first century. This skill is developed throughout grade school and continues into adulthood. Many successful readers use active highlighting to assist in their reading comprehension. Active …
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"I can read accurately but can't understand the text read" : the effects of using a reading intervention on fifth-grade students' "word callers" reading comprehension achievement
… effects of an intervention of five researched reading strategies on fifth-grade students’ “word callers” reading achievement. Twenty-one fifth-grade students attending elementary schools in midwestern United States participated in this study. Students were randomly assigned to either the …
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Challenges in the teaching of reading in English, to grade 3 Venda speaking learners in rural areas of Soutpansberg east circuit
… in the Soutpansberg East District struggle with reading in English, as the first home language. This affects their understanding of other subjects. This study aimed to investigate the challenges in the teaching of reading in English, to Grade 3 Venda-speaking learners in rural areas of …
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Exploring the use of prediction and summarization to increase students' listening and reading comprehension /
… instructing students to use a repertoire of reading comprehension strategies. Specifically, this study examined whether providing students with a "predictive story-frame" which combined the use of prediction and summarization strategies improved their reading comprehension relative to …
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Öğrenme güçlüğü olan öğrencilerin okuduğunu anlama becerilerinin normal gelişim gösteren akranlarıyla karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesi
… of this study is to comparatively examine reading comprehension skills of students with and without learning disabilities. This study included 240 elementary students of which 120 were students with learning disabilities and 120 were normally developing students and who attended 3rd and 4th …
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The power of children's dialogue: Taiwanese students' peer-led literature discussion
… with a variety of sources, and to apply reading comprehension strategies to interpret the selected texts. In the process of meaning negotiation, they shared different ways of thinking, listened to views of others, valued ideas different from their own, advocated their own beliefs, and …
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Cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in first and second language reading comprehension
… strategy use in first and second language reading comprehension (RC) among Igbo native speakers who are English as Second Language (ESL) learners in Nigeria. The RC of ESL readers in Nigeria has not previously been investigated. The three studies presented in this thesis explored cognitive …