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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Word-Study"”.
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Word Study Instruction and its Impact on Students' Writing in Third Grade
I am interested in studying the interactions of word study and students transferring that knowledge into writing. My research question is: How does word study impact students' strategies in word construction in writing workshop for third graders identifying words in isolation below grade level?
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The effects of a word study spelling program in a differentiated classroom
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if implementing a word study spelling program in a differentiated classroom could improve students' long-term retention of spelling words. This study compared a word study program with a more traditional spelling approach. The findings of the experiment …
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How Fluency is Impacted for Struggling Readers Through Decoding, Rereading, and Word Study
The purpose of this study was to investigate what happens to the fluency of struggling readers when the decoding of new or unfamiliar words were taught during small group reading instruction. Three females and two male first and second grade students provided usable data for this study. Research …
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The effects of word study: a developmental and discovery based approach to spelling
… academic investigation was to find the effect of Word Study on the spelling abilities of third grade students; and to determine if the change in spelling abilities is greater in those third graders who receive the treatment of guided on-level instruction and interactive word activities than those …
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A comparative study of apokaluptō and phaneroō in the Greek New Testament : a word study
Ph. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1940 Faculty committee signature: J. Mckee Adams
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Reading Mastery Versus Word Study Instruction as it Pertains to Third Graders' Reading Achievement Scores
This study was conducted in order to compare two phonics-based approaches to teaching reading. The two approaches were Reading Mastery (SRA Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1995) and Word Study (Bear et al. 1996). While Reading Mastery has been compared to other reading methods to examine the effectiveness …
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The Impact Of Word-Study Intervention Strategies On Students' Measures Of Reading Comprehension And Fluency
… the existing research regarding effective word-study interventions for struggling adolescent readers, various researchers propose a need for additional research on effective reading interventions to confirm and extend existing knowledge. The current study specifically investigates the …
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The effectiveness of two spelling approaches on vocabulary development for Hispanic learners
The purpose of the study was to evaluate two approaches to teaching spelling and vocabulary to second through fourth graders in two different urban school systems to determine if one program revealed greater growth scores on Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) reading components. …
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
… history and fiction are critiqued. A word study of the Greek word ίστοριά will show the essential difference between history and literature. The essential nature of the historical task can best be revealed in the differences between history and art.</p>
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An Investigation of the Test/Retest Stability of the Stanford Achievement Test
This study investigated the stability of three subtests of the Stanford Achievement Test. It further analyzed reliability and validity assessment of standardized tests in general, with particular emphasis on their measurement of reading ability. It clarified the position of stability assessment …
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Strategies for Teaching Literacy
… construct meaning from literacy lessons? This study discusses a balanced approach to literacy education examining the use of phonetic and whole-language approaches to instruction. The author examines the benefits of teaching reading and spelling using each approach separately, and then in a …
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The Feasibility of Training Teachers to be More Humanistic and the Training's Effect on the Teachers' Students
… in a classroom do make a difference. This study was concerned with the effects of a midwestern intermediate education agency's human relations training program. The study determined certain effects of this training on teachers and its transferability to the teachers' students in a …
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Growth in reading of culturally disadvantaged pupils : a two year study using enriched programmed instruction and basal readers
… materials, and developments.The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a programmed linguistic approach augmented by enrichment and supervisory support when compared with a traditional basal reader approach in improving the reading growth of a group of pupils identified as …
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Comparative Effects of Two Error Correction Procedures during Repeated Reading for Students with Learning Disabilities
… dissertation reports the findings from a main study and an extended study. The purpose of the main study was to examine the comparative effects of two error correction procedures during repeated reading interventions on the reading fluency and accuracy of nontransfer and transfer passages for …
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The Contemplation of the Transcendent Heart: Tracing the ἡγεμονικόν from the Stoics to Origen
… of the key term dogma. The third chapter is a word-study of ‘governing faculty’. Here, we observe, in greater detail, the way in which the governing faculty stands as an isthmus between spiritual and material substance. Origen utilises the Stoic language of physical sensation in order to …
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The relationship between a church's discipleship practices and the development of maturing disciples
… The six discipleship practices explored in this study were Sunday school, discipleship courses, small group ministry, preaching, mission involvement, and ministry opportunities. The biblical foundation for discipleship and discipleship practices utilized by churches is explored. A biblical …
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Divination in 1 Samuel 28 and Beyond: An African Study in the Politics of Translation
… demonstrate my thesis, I carry out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. I …
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Desecration and Defilement in the Old Testament
… My approach was basically a synchronical word study. All the appearances of the roots hll and tm' in the OT were analyzed. The roots hnp and g'l as well as some secondary roots related to the subject were also investigated. Consideration was given to texts where the idea of desecration or …
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A Comparative Content Analysis of Five Spelling Programs in the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Grade
This study investigated the content of five widely used spelling programs at three grade levels. Five spelling programs, Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic Spelling, Sitton Spelling, Words Their Way, and Treasures were analyzed. The following questions guided the study: To what extent do current spelling …