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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"informational text"”.
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Creating Opportunities For Learning: Play As A Scaffold For Format Based Informational Text Features
… develop a deeper understanding of format based informational text features. On Day 1 of the intervention, groups of students role played as reporters as they observed classmates at play. During Days 2 - 5 of the intervention, the same students wrote an informational book about the play they had …
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Teachers Adapting Common Core Informational-text Writing Instruction for Students With Mild to Moderate Disabilities
… different types of writing to help them critique text and process information. They also are required to write informational text. Informational-text writing is challenging for students with mild to moderate disabilities, including students with language-learning disabilities, who often struggle …
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The effects on student understanding when questioning techniques are used during the reading of informational text
… taught strategies to use when they come across informational texts, then they will be able to apply this information when they come across complex texts. Students not only need to be aware of the strategies, but they need to have the metacognitive ability of when to use the best strategy for the …
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The Beliefs Literacy Specialists Hold Regarding Processes that Assist Struggling Readers with the Comprehension of Informational Text
… struggling readers with the comprehension of informational text. The methods used were designed to address the research question: <em>What are the beliefs reading/literacy specialists hold regarding processes that assist struggling readers with the comprehension of informational text? …
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How the Instruction and Use of Three Metacognitve Reading Strategies Helped Fourth Graders Find Success and Enjoyment in Reading Informational Text
… engagement with and understanding of expository texts. To do so, I focused on three metacognitive strategies that I explicitly instructed in a series of small group settings; connecting, imaging, and predicting. I provided the students with time to practice the strategies independently using …
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Utterances and Questions in Informational Book Read Aloud and Science Activity Sessions
… were recorded and transcribed from a total of 10 informational text read aloud and 10 science activity sessions, across four science topics, with 15 third graders in five groups of three students. The overlying questions in the study were: What will the frequency of utterances be for the two …
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Nonfiction interests and reading habits of third grade students
<p>In recent years there has been a push for informational text use in the areas of reading and writing. The Common Core State Standards was introduced in 2009 as an initiative to have all students, no matter where they live, be prepared for college and careers. Further the reading panel of the …
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Digital Reader: Using A Cell Phone to Explore and Engage with Informational Texts
… explored the use of a cell phone to search for informational texts while using different websites. This study investigated a student’s critical thinking process as she engaged in discussion with the researcher regarding her research findings. This study was conducted for five weeks, and was …
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Repeated reading for students with special needs
… fifth graders with special needs when reading informational text. The purpose of this study was to teach students new techniques to improve word accuracy and comprehension and to better inform instruction. Four students in a multiple disabled self-contained classroom participated in this five …
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Technological and Engineering Design Based Learning: Supporting Graphical Device Comprehension Instruction at the Upper Elementary School Level
… facilitating student comprehension of nonfiction/informational text inclusive of graphical devices. The data for this mixed methods exploratory case study were collected using a variety of instruments which assessed the prior knowledge, general graphical device comprehension, and reading …
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An exploration of strategy-based reading instruction using expository science text in grades 2-5
… reading instruction using science expository text between grades 2-5. The exploration revealed that elementary teachers used a variety of reading strategies using expository text for science instruction in grades 2-5, and that time barriers exist for strategy-based instruction using …