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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Reading First"”.
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Reading First Sustainability
… skills students achieved by participating in the Reading First program in first, second, and third grade in a Northern Nevada urban school district elementary setting. A t-test compared 449 Reading First students' ELA mean Scale Scores from the Nevada CRT to a comparative group of 621 students who …
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Comparative Study of Reading First Schools Reading Achievement to Non-Reading First Schools.
… if there was any significant increase in the reading achievement of Reading First third grade students compared to the reading achievement of the third grade reading students in Non-Reading First schools located in southwest Virginia for 2004-2009. The Standards of Learning (SOLs) reading test …
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Collective Teacher Efficacy And Reading Achievement For Hispanic Students In Reading First And Non-reading First Schools In Southwest Florida
This study examined explicit and systematic reading instruction for Hispanic, limited English, lower SES students in a southwest Florida school district. Additionally, collective teacher efficacy was assessed to determine if differences existed between a Reading First and a non-Reading First …
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Teachers' Perceptions of the Implementation of Reading First
… experiences related to the implementation of Reading First in the classroom and more specifically, how Reading First has impacted curriculum, instruction, assessment, student achievement, and professional development. The participants for this study were five certified, kindergarten and first …
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The impact of Reading First on reading achievement scores in a midwestern elementary school
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An analysis of literacy instruction in Tennessee reading first schools with high levels of proficiency in reading/language arts scores
Reading proficiency has been declining in the US schools. The Reading First (RF) program was designed to combat this trend. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons why some RF programs were successful and some were not. The study brings a Tennessee perceptive to the research of the …
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Scientifically based reading research strategies in the preschool classroom: An investigation into quality early childhood reading practices and literacy acquisition in one northern Michigan early reading first program
… external evaluation of one grant-funded Early Reading First site in northern Michigan, this dissertation explored teacher, student, and environmental factors related to early literacy acquisition for 173 four-year-old children in nine early childhood classroom programs. Using the Phonological …
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A Paradigm Shift in Professional Development: Weaving Threads of Understandings Through Job-Embedded Coaching for Increased Student Achievement.
… and strategies are released for teaching reading and writing.</p><p>Recommendations from this study include examining Reading First schools and their job-embedded coaching programs. Reading First is a federal program with money appropriated to states and school systems that qualify with …
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Writer's Workshop in Kindergarten: A Study of Writing Mechanics, Attitudes, and Behaviors
… a kindergarten classroom, given the confines of Reading First. The goal was to use this information to more effectively assist kindergarten students in developing their writing skills. This study was designed to highlight the importance of writing instruction at this level and to explore one …
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A Postmodern Reading of the Liggett & Myers Settlement: Finding the Unique Past the Modern Corporate Identity Model
… model to fully observe business identity in its reading. Considering Corporate Identity as a postmodern analysis in case study form renders a new reading of the Liggett & Myers settlement with states' attorneys general as a Corporate Identity creation in a postmodern manner. Reading first the …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
… Methodologically, this thesis inverts the comreading model in literary studies of reading Third World writers through First World theorists. Instead, beginning with Anzaldúa, I propose to reverse this process and assert a new reading methodology of reading First World writers through Third …
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Teachers' and Principals' Perspectives of Literacy Coaching in an Elementary School.
… a change process when they received <em>Virginia Reading First</em> funding. They were required to use only scientifically based reading researched programs and strategies. Teachers were required to use new programs, change their instructional practices, use data to drive instruction, restructure …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
This project argues that by reading first-person accounts of drug intoxication in European modernism, one can uncover qualitative structures that broadly inform the modernist experience of space, time, language, desire, and embodiment. Evidence for this systematization of subjective experience …
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Teacher Perceptions of Their Effectiveness in Supporting Reading Strategies as a Result of Collaboration with a Literacy Coach
<p>Problem</p> <p>The poor reading and comprehension skills of many secondary-school students present a challenge for secondary teachers, the majority of whom have no training in the teaching of reading. The increasing expectations of the No Child Left Behind legislature add to the pressures on …
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An exploration of the impact of teachers' instructional practices in teaching phonemic awareness to kindergarten and first grade students
… teaching phonemic awareness to kindergarten and first grade students. Three questions were explored. These questions were: (a) How do teachers determine the appropriate instructional strategies to use in teaching phonemic awareness?, (b) What are the similarities and differences that each teacher …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… of queer theory. The focus, however, is close reading. First, Lord Byron's epic satire Don Juan is read with regards to the interplay of narrative strategies and the depiction of gender, homoeroticism and the concept of the child. Furthermore, reviews published at the time of the publication of …
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