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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"Reading skills"”.
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Developing Pre-Reading Skills Through Movement
… knowledge instruction could enhance the pre-reading skills of kindergarten students identified as at risk of literacy challenges. The four-week Active Alphabet intervention embedded core pre-reading tasks within gross motor activities delivered during PE classes. Participants included …
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Intonation And Reading Skills In Fourth-Grade Students
… study was to examine the role of intonation skills in the reading comprehension of fourth-grade students. Although, the National Reading Panel's (2000) definition of reading fluency as "...the ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression..." (p. 3-5) suggests a role …
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Reading skills in Down syndrome: an examination of orthographic knowledge
The primary purpose of the present study was to examine orthographic knowledge in a sample of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) in comparison to typically developing (TD) children matched on word identification ability. Phonological recoding was also compared across groups. A secondary purpose of …
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The Development of Language and Reading Skills in Emergent Bilingual Children
… immersion program contributes to literacy (word reading, pseudoword reading, reading comprehension), language (vocabulary and morphological awareness (MA)), phonological awareness, and rapid automatized naming in English and Hebrew. Similar improvement from senior kindergarten to Grade 1 was …
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The influence of inattention on rapid automatized naming and reading skills
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. School Psychology, 2010
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Predictive Validity of Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness Measures on Second Grade Reading Skills
… academic domain, a student must possess basic reading skills. One characteristic of poor readers is their lack of understanding of phonological structure and lack of awareness of phonemes. Phonemic awareness tasks are divided into two broad categories: synthetic or analytic. Both have been …
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The Use of E-books, Computers, and Tablets To Enhance Reading Skills
… opinions of technology and its usage with reading instruction. The study explored teachers’ use of e-books, computers (reading programs), and tablets to enhance reading skills. Specifically, the researcher wanted to investigate elementary teachers’ beliefs regarding the use of e-books …
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Improving Reading Skills for English Language Learners Within the Regular Educational Program
… of students not meeting state and national reading goals are alarming. A large percentage of these students are English Language Learners (ELLs). To improve academic learning, classroom teachers need to be aware of current research findings in the area of reading and combine these with best …
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A Survey of the Provisions for Critical Reading Skills in Basal Readers
… study was to determine the number of critical reading skills included in six basal reading series and how many of these skills each series contained. It was also the purpose of this study to determine the grade level at which each specific skill was introduced and further how many of these …
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The Development of Music Writing and Reading Skills Through Singing with Elementary Students
… could develop a systematic approach to music reading and writing skills through singing. Procedure. The set of "Hands On Music Writing and Reading" books were developed by the author to: 1) aid all children in the development of their innate musical abilities, 2) make the language of music …
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Acquiring reading skills in a foreign language in a multilingual,corpus-based environment
… a web-based environment. Specifically, the reading model developed in this project, together with its practical implementation into a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment, are designed to help adult speakers (language LI, here English) acquire reading skills in a foreign …
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Impact of digital games on early reading skills in a developing country context
Reading is the basic component of learning that constitutes one of the first steps towards educational attainment. Amongst others, some of the pressing issues the developing countries face are lower literacy rates, education quality and access. Pakistan comes under the list of countries with …
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Unravelling reading : evaluating the effectiveness of strategies used to support adults' reading skills
… effectiveness of strategies to improve adults' reading skills. It explores what counts as an improvement in reading skills for adults; examines practical and ethical issues in measuring improvements in reading skills; considers Kruidenier's (2002) categorisation of reading into components …
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A comparison of decontextualized and contextualized reading skills in persons with severe aphasia
… measures comparative design compared the reading comprehension accuracy scores of three participants across two conditions: Condition A -- Decontextualized Stimulus Reading Task (DSRT), resembling traditional reading therapy, and Condition B -- Contextual Choice Reading Conversation (CCRC) …
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An investigation of academic reading skills of science foundation students at a rural university
… this is seen is in students’ lack of academic reading ability. Although, some of these students read fluently they do not display competencies in other reading areas, such as to understand, interpret, infer or critique ideas expressed in science academic texts. This low academic reading …
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Promoting early literacy and reading skills in the Foundation Phase in Klein Letaba Circuit
Reading and literacy are imperative in the education of all. It is important to note that literacy is the foundation for learners in schools because it can enhance their learning, implying that improving literacy levels can also help improve numeracy skills. This is supported by Kim (2020:97), who …
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Partner Reading: A Constructivist Based Approach to Developing Reading Skills in the Elementary Grades
… of this study was to determine whether partner reading can elicit a high level of comprehension of text while utilizing a style of learning that is natural for young children. A comparison between the partner reading technique and the traditional basal reading method on student comprehension was …
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