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Showing 1 to 20 of 1072 for “"Struggling"”.
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Hope for Struggling School Districts
… However, there is also encouraging evidence of struggling schools and school districts moving toward improvement. Innovative leaders who are committed to inclusive and rigorous academics, shared leadership, and an in-depth understanding of the diversity of their student population are moving …
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Supporting Struggling Readers in an Inclusive Classroom
… has created an urgent need toward providing struggling readers with remedial skills as well as ways to access the general education curriculum. In order to help these struggling readers acquire the skills to read and continue to progress in all academic areas, teachers need to have the …
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How critical is fluency for the struggling reader?
… is to look at the importance of fluency to the struggling reader. The research sets out to look for answers to the following questions: How critical is fluency for the struggling reader? What effect does fluency have on the reading experience? What strategies work to improve fluency? The …
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Helping struggling writers through self-regulated strategy development
<p>The purposes of this action research was to determine the effectiveness of implementing a self-regulated strategy development model to teach a story writing strategy to three 3<sup>rd</sup> grade students at a New Jersey Elementary School. This study involved a comparison of stories written by …
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Emergent literacy intervention in first grade struggling readers
… about culturally responsive literature for struggling 1st grader students?; 2) How can using multicultural or culturally conscious literature expand students’ attitudes toward reading?; and 3) How can systematic, explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and alphabetic principle strengthen …
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Factors Influencing Readers When Matching Texts to Struggling Students
… district with three, fifth grade students struggling with reading deficits which included both reading comprehension and decoding skills. Research data was gathered using Fountas and Pinnell 2008 Leveling System Kit. Conclusions noted student background knowledge and personal interest as …
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The Effectiveness of Phonemic Awareness Instruction on Struggling Readers
… the effect of small group instruction on struggling readers at the second grade level, with specific focus on increasing phonemic awareness skills. This research involved explicit instruction in leveled groups of guided reading. The six week research study was conducted in a rural …
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Literacy in the 21st Century: supporting struggling adolescent readers
… to describe the different perspectives of five struggling readers regarding contributing factors to their literacy experiences and success. The theoretical framework used to make meaning included: (a) high schools and literacy, (b) school culture, (c) motivation, (d) technology, and (e) literacy …
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Response to Intervention: Raising the Achievement of Struggling Readers
<p>Two purposes guided this concurrent nested mixed methods research. It examined and described the processes followed and experiences had by the administrators, teachers, and specialists involved in designing and implementing a new Response to Intervention (RtI) model at an elementary and examined …
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Understanding Reading Through the Eyes of Third-Grade Struggling Readers
… READING THROUGH THE EYES OF THIRD-GRADE STRUGGLING READERS MAJOR PROFESSORS: Dr. Marla H. Mallette / Dr. Lynn C. Smith Within the vast research base on struggling readers, very few studies address the nature of struggling readers from their own perspectives; that is, how struggling …
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Literacy Intervention for Struggling Readers: Knowledge Mobilization in our Communities
This study explored the efficacy of a literacy program as it was offered in partnership between Brock University and the Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region. Specifically, this study examined sixteen 5 to 12-year-old children with reading disabilities who participated in a 5-week …
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Struggling to hold addiction treatment talk and relapse in mind
Addiction is a common problem, as is relapse. People often struggle to come to terms with and manage the intoxicating effects of substances and consequently need treatment. This dissertation focusses on treatment talk as it relates to addiction counselling in a residential setting in order to …
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Struggling against leprosy: physicians, medicine, and society in Colombia, 1880-1940
This study examines the constructions of leprosy in Colombia from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s. In the nineteenth century Colombian physicians constructed leprosy as highly infectious and threatening and adopted rigid segregation of “lepers” to prevent its propagation. At the same time, …
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Struggling for Civility. The Idea and the Reality of Civil Society
Contains fulltext : 93537.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Christian and Pedophilia: Applying Biblical Counseling to Christians Struggling with Pedophilia
… Chapter 5 examines implications for both the one struggling with pedophilia as well as the church that welcomes such struggles into communion with the saints.
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Using Technology and Multimodal Literacy to Actively Engage Struggling and Disengaged Readers
… Interactive Library impacts the engagement of struggling and disengaged readers. Struggling readers are at a great risk for failure and dropping out of school; therefore, using other resources such as digital literacy can aid in supporting readers who struggle to decode words and have trouble …
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Classic Literature and Struggling Readers in Middle School Grades Five through Eight
… to complicate reading for middle school struggling readers. Although research has been conducted on struggling readers and strategies to help them, the purpose of this study was to examine struggling readers in conjunction with classic literature. Using the methodologies of historical …
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Teachers' Perceptions Regarding Reaching Struggling Learners In An Elementary School Mathematics Classroom
… teachers use to identify and meet the needs of struggling learners in a K-3 mathematics classroom. Specific areas of focus included how K-3 teachers identify areas of need and plan for interventions, the resources they rely on in that process, and their own self-efficacy regarding addressing …
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STRUGGLING STUDENTS BECOME SUCCESSFUL ART MENTORS: A MIXED METHOD MULTI-CASE STUDY
… drop-outs and meet the needs of academically struggling students. Both the visual arts and mentoring programs have been shown to improve academic performance and emotional well-being. This study examined the impact of an art mentoring program on academically struggling high school students who …
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