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Middle School Reading Comprehension
… and evaluate strategies for middle school reading comprehension. More often than not, middle school students are placed into reading programs and expected to keep up with their grade level peers. Middle school students come to school with very different reading abilities. Past instruction …
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Dialogic Pedagogy and Reading Comprehension: Examining the Effect of Dialogic Support on Reading Comprehension for Adolescents
The reading comprehension scores of students in secondary education have been stagnant since the collection of national statistics on reading comprehension began (National Assessment on Educational Progress [NAEP], 2015, 2017, 2019). This study explored the effect of providing dialogic and thematic …
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Reading comprehension in pediatric focal epilepsy
… accounted for by impaired cognition. Although reading comprehension is a particular area of weakness for children with epilepsy, little is known regarding differential impact of focal seizure activity within reading-specific neural networks and contribution of well-known reading support …
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Increasing Reading Comprehension Through Socratic Seminars
… aims to improve students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension skills. This strategy supports comprehension by encouraging students to answer textual-based questions with textual evidence and engage in providing multiple perspectives with their peers. Using a concurrent multiple baseline …
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Factors affecting reading comprehension in primary pupils
… location, on the totals and types of miscomprehensions displayed by the subjects in directed and free-recall comprehension tasks were calculated. 'Errors' are considered to be divergences from the author's supposed meaning. It is found that the collected errors are not random but may be …
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Prior Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Test Bias
… that due to prior knowledge, in tests of reading comprehension. A pilot study demonstrated that prior knowledge has a strong and measurable effect on comprehension from expository text, even when measured with multiple choice questions. This was demonstrated in two ways, by (a) measuring …
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The Relationship Between Interest and Reading Comprehension
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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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The Effects of Question-Generation Techniques on Reading Comprehension
… teaching of question-generation training improve reading comprehension and is there evidence of a successful student transference and a publication of question-generation training in content area subjects? Procedure. The subjects in this study were thirty-one sixth through eighth grade students at …
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Differentiation in Teaching Reading Comprehension and Motivation of Students
From introduction: Meeting the needs of all the students in a classroom is probably one of the biggest challenges teachers face today. Teachers are given goals by the federal government through the No Child Left Behind Act, and by the standards set forth by the state of New York. In addition, local …
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The Cloze Procedure: A Measure of Reading Comprehension Ability
… determine if a relationship exists between those comprehension processes measured by the Paragraph Comprehension subtest of the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test and the cloze test developed for this project. Two classes of undergraduate education majors enrolled in “Foundations of …
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Adult ESL Oral Reading Fluency and Silent Reading Comprehension
… academic program revealed that their oral reading fluency had a significant, low-to-moderate correlation with scores on a measure of silent reading comprehension. The correlation was slightly stronger for measures of accuracy than speed, and strongest for miscue ratio. The correlation …
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Reading Comprehension: A Whole Language Effect on Academic Success
… philosophy as compared to a more traditional reading program on children’s reading comprehension scores. Current research indicated the importance of teachers stating the topic of reading prior to reading as well as the importance of students’ oral reading ability to assess reading …
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The Assessment of Fundamental Skills Involved in Reading Comprehension
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First- versus second-language reading comprehension of literary texts
… study compared the English (L1) and French (L2) reading comprehension and inferencing skills of undergraduates enrolled in an introductory French literature course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Forty-two participants read opening chapters of two different contes …
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Text readability and summarisation for non-native reading comprehension
… focuses on two important aspects of non-native reading comprehension: text readability assessment, which estimates the reading difficulty of a given text for L2 learners, and learner summarisation assessment, which evaluates the quality of learner summaries to assess their reading comprehension. …
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Technology-based Intervention in L2 Reading Comprehension: Toward Digital Scaffolding
… for language learners to enhance their reading comprehension competencies. Despite an increase in access to written input, reading comprehension has stayed challenging for many, including language learners. Digital scaffolding can contribute to improving reading comprehension skills for …
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Reading comprehension evaluated through electronic storybooks and traditional print storybooks
… compared to printed storybooks, affect students' comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is a process by which the reader constructs meaning with the text. With electronic texts, the computer is able to control the number of words that are displayed to allow the student to read at their own …
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Using literature circles to increase reading comprehension and student motivation
<p>Many educators arrange students in guided reading groups based on their reading lexile. Usually the books selected for guided reading are from a basal reading series and are used to teach different reading components and strategies. However, the books don’t always reflect student cultures, …
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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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