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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"content area literacy"”.
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Teacher Perspectives on Content Literacy in Elementary Schools
<p>Content area teachers are expected to incorporate literacy strategies in their classrooms, despite the fact that all content area teachers do no attend professional learning communities to learn effective literacy strategies. This study is needed because many content area teachers lack the …
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Case Study of a Middle School Reader Attending a Separate Reading Class
… of these courses. Many researchers advocate content-area literacy or interdisciplinary teaming instead, claiming that students do not transfer the skills they learn in reading classes to other subjects. This qualitative case study of one middle school student is an intensive description of a …
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Effectiveness of the QAR Reading Strategy on Science Reading
… if the implementation of the QAR would improve content area literacy knowledge and confidence from pre-test and post-test data. Pedagogies included modeling, collaboration, independent work, guided practice, direct instruction, and inquiry laboratories. Through the implementation of the QAR …
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Content-Based Instruction for English Language Learners: An Exploration Across Multiple Classroom Settings
… of how the ELLs were taught English through the content areas, based on an examination of the teachers' perspectives on content-based ESL instruction or regular content-area literacy instruction, the classroom structures involving group work, and the teachers' instructional approaches in each …
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High school teachers' stories of experiences with disciplinary literacy in their content area
… where multiple high school students receive literacy instruction can be explored through the narrative stories of teachers and their experience with disciplinary literacy instruction in their content area. The narrative, constructivist grounded theory approach to this research sought to make …
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An Evaluation of Educator Preparedness in Content Area and Disciplinary Literacies in the High School Classroom
… debate that currently exists between the content area and disciplinary literacy is how content area and disciplinary literacy strategies and educator preparedness to teach those components to fit together to further student achievement. The purpose of my study was to evaluate if educators …
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An Examination of Reading Assignments in the Secondary Classroom
… methodology behind how teachers assess student content learning through assigned text. This study is broken down into three major components: teacher-completed reading logs, student surveys, and two case studies. This mixed methods data collection process revealed that students are typically …
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A Savory Stew: Text Differentiation in a Middle School Immigration Unit
The goal of this case study of a mindful literacy teacher in a middle school social studies class was to describe the nature of one teacher's differentiated text choices in one seven week unit. The participant was nominated by an administrator, a district supervisor, a university professor, and the …
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A Quasi-Experimental Study on the Impact of Explicit Instruction of Science Text Structures on Eighth-Grade English Learners' and Non-English Learners' Content Learning and Reading Comprehension in Three Inclusive Science Classrooms
… structures plus micro text structures on the content learning, sentence comprehension, and reading comprehension of eighth-grade English Learners (ELs) and non-English Learners (non-ELs) in three inclusive science classrooms. Although the results of this study did not show significant …