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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Reading comprehension skills"”.
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Improving children's reading comprehension skills through parental involvement
… effects of parental involvement upon children's reading achievement. The study investigated whether children with learning difficulty would improve reading comprehension when parents became actively involved in their child's reading activities. Five 3rd and 4th grade students attending a small …
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Augmenting Reading Comprehension Skills of Efl University Level Students (Esl, Syntax)
… have the students transfer their first language reading skills to their reading in a second language. By using these already developed skills, plus teaching selected syntactic rules and semantic constraints, the students would be able to read and comprehend a second language without necessarily …
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The Direct Teaching of Thinking Skills for Improvement of Reading Comprehension Skills
… was to determine whether a difference existed in reading comprehension test scores between groups receiving traditional reading instruction and traditional reading instruction with specific thinking skills. The study also investigated the effect of I Q and gender on thinking skills and reading …
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Comprehend What? Teaching Reading Strategies That Improve High School Juniors Reading Comprehension Skills
… students in high school experience difficulty reading and comprehending text and narrative material at grade level. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of explicitly teaching comprehension strategies on eleventh grade students’ comprehension of written material. Sixty-three …
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Retention of mathematics and reading comprehension skills among Navy Functional Skills Program graduates
… was conducted to investigate mathematics and reading comprehension skill retention of Navy’s 1987 Functional Skills Program graduates over three to twelve month period immediately following training. Two separate studies were conducted. One studied math retention for a course using …
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Development of Reading Comprehension Skills Among Students With Intellectual Disabilities Using Technologically-Based Reading Programs
… conducted regarding technologically-based reading comprehension programs for students who have intellectual disabilities. It provided evidence-based research and theoretical bases for learning(i.e. Zone of Generativity, Constructivism, Self-Efficacy) on the issue of these students not being …
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Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills to Saudi Female Students at the University Levels: A Handbook for Teachers
… The handbook serves as a guide for teaching reading comprehension to Saudi female students at the university levels. The handbook illustrates different teaching methods that activate different learning modalities. It also include sample units with reading passages and activities that model …
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Evaluating EFL students’ reading comprehension skills with reference to the Department of English at Zawia University, Libya
… main challenges that faced Libyan students in reading comprehension within the English language programme at Zawia University, Libya, through the perceptions of lecturers and students at the Department of English. This study also evaluated the current teaching practices of reading comprehension …
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The effects of technology-based graphic organizers to teach reading comprehension skills of students with learning disabilities
… of graphic organizers paired with technology on reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities in grade 8 (n = 8). The data was conducted for a total of 15 weeks including baseline, training, and intervention phases. Students were measured on their reading comprehension while …
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Challenges Oshikwanyama first language teachers face in implementing reading comprehension skills at six selected schools in the Khomas region
… teachers and learners face in implementing reading comprehension skills at six selected schools in Khomas Region. The study focused on the strategies that Oshikwanyama First Language teachers employ to teach Reading Comprehension Skills to Grade 12 learners in the Khomas Region. The study …
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Using graphic organizers on ipads to teach reading comprehension skills to high school students with moderate and severe cognitive impairments
… of using graphic organizers (GOs) to improve reading comprehension skills of five high school students with moderate to severe cognitive impairments. The baseline took place during first two weeks of the study, and the students were not provided with any GOs during this phase. The first …
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Developing the reading comprehension skills of English second language primary school teacher trainees at an Afrikaans-medium college of education
… (EL2) are inadequately equipped to teach reading comprehension skills. They test their pupils on literal, at the expense of inferential, reading skills. This investigation therefore sought to test the literal and inferential reading comprehension skills of a group of Afrikaans-speaking EL2 …
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The effect of daily "sustained silent reading" in improving fluency, word recognition, and reading comprehension skills for mild cognitive impaired students
… evaluated the effectiveness of Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) when used daily with Mild Cognitive Impaired students. The purpose of the study was to measure strengths, deficits, and gains in fluency, word recognition, and reading comprehension abilities through pre and post-test procedures. Seven …
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The impact of a programme for teaching reading comprehension skills on female Saudi students in King Abdulaziz University in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah
… present thesis is concerned with the teaching of reading comprehension in Saudi Arabia. Its purpose is to explore ways of improving reading comprehension skills and to investigate the effectiveness of an Experimental Reading Programme devised by the researcher. The experimental reading programme …
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Okuduğunu anlama başarısızlığı olan öğrencilerin okumaya yönelik tutumlarının incelenmesi
… tutumları, okuma başarısı ile tutum ilişkisi READING ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS WITH POOR READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS The general aim of the study is to examine the reading attitudes of 4th grade students who have failed in reading comprehension comparing with those of their peers. In addition, the …
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Self-Regulated Strategy Development and a Low-Intensity Behavior Strategy: Intensified TWA and Mindful Breathing to Improve the Reading Comprehension Skills of Middle School Students with Learning and Behavioral Disorders
… disabilities often exhibit deficits in reading comprehension and self-regulatory behavior. Chapter 1 consists of two research to practice papers in manuscript form (with references and tables included in each) discussing how to address these deficits through explicit instruction in …
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The incorporation of graphic and semantic organizers, answering and generating questions, retelling, and making connection strategies to foster ninth grade students´ reading comprehension skills at c.e. insa, santa ana, during the year 2019.
… to train students and therefore foster students’ reading comprehension skills by leaving aside traditional methods and incorporating the strategies graphic and semantic organizers, answering and generating questions, retelling, and making connection. This will generate development of interest on …
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Impact of technology implementation in a fourth grade classroom: Teacher and student perspectives
… to create opportunities for students to increase reading comprehension skills. Additionally, students become engaged when presented with technology applications and engage in productive dialogue and activate reading comprehension skills. Lastly, there needs to be a discussion on making technology …
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Reciprocal Teaching as a Reading-Comprehension Strategy Among First-Year Industrial Technology Education Majors at the University of Technology, Jamaica
… learning non-technical content due to their weak reading-comprehension skills. Reciprocal Teaching strategies have been shown to improve students reading-comprehension and learning, especially across the United States and Europe (Palincsar and Brown, 1984; Rosenshine and Meister, 1993, 1994). By …
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Improving Grade Four Students’ Reading Comprehension in Saudi Arabia: The Effectiveness of Reciprocal Teaching
… that has the potential to enhance the students’ reading comprehension skills in teaching language contexts. This study investigated the effectiveness of Reciprocal Teaching in improving grade four students' reading comprehension skills during Lughati AlJameelah (My Beautiful Language) the Arabic …
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