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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Reading Specialist"”.
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Reading Specialist Practices at the Third Grade Level in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
… the actual, perceived, and ideal roles of the reading specialist as compared to the Elements found within of the International Reading Association's Standards for Specialized Reading Personnel, Revised, 2003 (IRA, 2004). Reading specialists, classroom teachers, and principals involved at the …
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Encendiendo la Intuición/Igniting Intuition: A Bilingual Reading Specialist's Lived Experiences and Reclaiming of Literacies
… as a first-generation Latina, bilingual reading specialist who developed biliteracy in English/Spanish from childhood through adulthood and how this ignited her cultural intuition. Framed by a critical, Chicana feminist lens, she analyzed her personal and professional biliteracy practices …
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Effective Models of In-Class Remedial Reading Instruction
… impacted. This paper will discuss the role of a reading specialist today and how students can receive remedial reading instruction in the regular classroom setting. This topic was selected due to observations of the difficulty my school based literacy educator (SBLE) faces in trying to implement …
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The Roles of Middle and High School Reading Specialists
… prepared classroom teachers and well-prepared reading specialists who can serve as coaches or mentors for teachers in the schools. Elementary level reading specialists and their role in the school community has been widely researched however the secondary level lacks clarity in impact on …
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Good to Great: A Case Study of an African American Literacy Coordinator’s Role in Transitioning a School From Dependence on a Scripted Reading Program to Balanced Literacy
… pull from the specific responsibilities of a reading specialist, literacy coach, reading educator, and an administrator. Furthermore, teachers reported a change in their practices and beliefs due to participation in the implementation process. Finally, findings suggested that most …
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Portraitures of field dependent children with reading disabilities: Colored overlays as an instructional intervention
… I program, unsuccessfully discontinued from the Reading Recovery program, and were tested as field dependent, a cognitive characteristic, using the Children's Embedded Figures Test created by Witkin, et al (1971). These participants were observed within a classroom setting, a small group setting, …
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Using Reader's Theater to Engage Struggling Readers in a Fifth Grade Urban Setting
… families. Both students were recommended by the reading specialist to help improve their reading fluency and comprehension skills. In order to determine the effectiveness of reader’s theater, several forms of data collection were used. Observational notes, interview questions, running records and …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Implementing Response to Intervention in Meeting Academic Needs of At-Risk Students in Kindergarten through Second Grade.
… it beneficial to have a literacy coach or reading specialist in the building and to have administration's support. Recommendations for implementing RTI successfully were based on the data analysis.</p>
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of an Early Bird/Late Bird Program
… school districts Early Bird / Late Bird Reading Program. The reading program allows for a reduced number of students for two hours of the school day, which is designated for teaching reading. The literature review states that, as the number of students-to-teacher ratio drops, the …
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Sources Of Missed Understanding: A Framework For Diagnosing Comprehension Breakdown
… would be used by teachers to diagnose students’ reading comprehension challenges during authentic reading instruction, and to understand the context and supports teachers needed to use the tool effectively. A design experiment methodology was used to follow the diagnostic processes of five …
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Online Support for Intentional, Teacher Community of Practice
… to nurture CoP among practicing teachers in a reading-specialist, graduate program. For the course under study, learners engaged only in cooperative projects with the support of a community worksite (Sakai). Throughout the term, the worksite was promoted as a community place independent of the …
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Who Is She? A Case Study of A Teacher of Gifted Learners
… Winters' (pseudonym) served as an elementary reading specialist for struggling readers and today, she is in her second year of teaching English language arts to students who are identified as academically gifted and talented. The case study took place at Beech Hill Elementary School …
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A Multiple-Case Study of Secondary Reading Specialists
… the role and educator perceptions of the reading specialist (RS) in the five secondary schools of one school district in the western United States. The purposes of the study were to determine: (1) the actual roles and responsibilities of the secondary RS, (2) whether differences existed in …
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Elementary Reading Specialists' Perspectives Towards Their Work
… was to explore the narratives of 22 elementary reading specialists about their work. It asked: What were reading specialists’ narratives about their work and their influences? The study looked at reading specialists’ day-to-day functioning within an institution and at reading specialists’ …
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The Beliefs Literacy Specialists Hold Regarding Processes that Assist Struggling Readers with the Comprehension of Informational Text
… right to read. It is the evolving work of the reading/literacy specialists to provide support and build confidence in readers struggling in all components of reading. The purpose of this study is to explore the beliefs of reading/literacy specialists regarding the processes that assist …
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Procedures for Setting Up a Remedial Reading Program in the Secondary Schools
… school is a need which no one will deny; and as reading is the primary means through which most formal education takes place, the need for expert readers is ever-present. The tragedy of so many high school students graduating without having mastered the skill of reading reminds us that schools …
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Use of the Audio Visual Tactile Treatment on Disabled Readers in Grades Three and Four : Its Effect on Word Recognition, Silent Reading Comprehension, and Attitude Towards Reading
… fourth-grade disabled readers in three areas of reading: word-recognition skills , silent-reading comprehension skills , and attitude towards reading. Procedures A Quasi-Experimental Pretest-Posttest Nonequivalent Group Design was used. The subjects were 87 students in grades 3 and 4 with at …
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The effects of culturally responsive instruction and multicultural texts to support fifth grade struggling readers in an RtI Tier 2 classroom
… I also integrated multicultural texts into their reading repertoire. The purpose of the multicultural texts was to get the students familiar with other cultures in the world and to see the similarities and differences that occur between cultures. The ultimate goal was to see how the use of …