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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"reading aloud"”.
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Reading aloud: Shaping reading attitudes
… (ability to read without willingness to do so)--Reading motivation.
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Reading aloud: Shaping reading attitudes
… (ability to read without willingness to do so)--Reading motivation.
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I'LL TALK, YOU LISTEN: WRITING CENTER TUTORS READING ALOUD IN SESSIONS WITH L2 TUTEES
… changes manifest themselves in who reads a text aloud, how that influences session content, and who talks and when. Based on the data and analysis, I make suggestions for tutor practice, education, and further research.</p>
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
… brings together sound art with the ritual of reading aloud the bible. When the bible is read aloud in worship, it is done by a single voice. I consider this single voice as a mono-voice of hegemony that hides and silences that plurality of voices that are present in scripture, with certain …
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Comparing the Performance and Preference of Students Experiencing a Reading Aloud Accommodation to those who do not on a Virtual Science Assessment
… inquiry skills to solve problems instead of reading long passages which attempt to contextualize questions but ultimately cause construct-irrelevant variance. However, within these assessments reading is still required to access the test questions and character interactions. This dissertation …
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Factors Which Influence Kindergarten Teachers Selection of Trade Books for Use in Readaloud Sessions in Their Classrooms
… 1983; Trelease, 1985; Kimmel and Segel, 1988), reading aloud is a powerful way to reach children academically and emotionally. Because reading aloud has the potential to affect children and because reading aloud occurs most often at the elementary level, this study was designed to investigate …
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The influence of individual differences on reading in readers of consistent compared to inconsistent orthographies
… that this may lead to differences in naming (reading aloud) processes. Readers themselves differ from each other in terms of relevant task performance, such as nonword decoding ability, vocabulary knowledge, spelling ability and reading experience. Such tasks tap into individual differences …
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Inservice videos in guided reading, writers' workshop and working with words
… trained in the components of balanced literacy: reading aloud, shared reading, guided writing, writers' workshop and working with words.</p>
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The Effects of Reading & Reading Strategy Training on Lower Proficiency Level Second Language Learning
… of this study was to investigate what effect reading in a second language has on the knowledge and language performance of young adult missionaries studying to learn a foreign language. It was hypothesized that reading would improve vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, and it was …
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A Description of the Read Aloud Practices of Elementary School Teachers
This study was designed to examine the read aloud practices of elementary school teachers. It also looked at those practices in regards to the differences exhibited between the different grade levels, and the teachers' different philosophies of reading instruction. Thirty-one teachers responded to …
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Converging evidence on the autonomy and abstractness of the representation of lexical stress
… i.e., spoken-word recognition (Chapter 2) and reading aloud (Chapters 4 and 5). The results shed new light on the nature of the stored prosodic knowledge about lexical stress and on what extent processing of lexical stress is similar in spoken-word recognition and reading aloud. In synthesis, …
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The effects of story performance on fourth and fifth grade students' comprehension and oral reading fluency of narrative and expository texts
… to assess the effects of storytelling and reading aloud on fourth and fifth grade children's comprehension and oral reading fluency of both narrative and expository texts. The independent variable involved two strategies for introducing stories to children (storytelling and story reading) …
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What's in a game: Examining the effect of video game experience across reading and attentional domains
… suggested playing action video games can improve reading ability in children with dyslexia, but the mechanisms behind this relationship are not fully understood. In this thesis, we evaluate whether attentional processes may be a driving force behind the relationship between reading and video game …
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Exploring Animal-Assisted Therapy as a Reading Intervention Strategy
… an attempt to explore the ways it may serve as reading intervention program for struggling readers. Due to the low rate of literacy in the U.S., children are often put into reading intervention programs where they are required to read to an adult; potentially creating anxiety that may act as a …
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Exploring Animal-Assisted Therapy as a Reading Intervention Strategy
… an attempt to explore the ways it may serve as reading intervention program for struggling readers. Due to the low rate of literacy in the U.S., children are often put into reading intervention programs where they are required to read to an adult; potentially creating anxiety that may act as a …
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Sparks, Celebrations, and Kids: An Ethnographic Study of Writers Club
… activities conducted within it with a focus on reading aloud. As the narrowing focus on skill and drill practices that are a by product of high stakes testing continues to grab time, attention, and headlines, educators and policymakers deserve access to examples of more meaning-based pedagogy in …
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An investigation on emergent literacy skills of preschool children with disabilities
… strategies used during parent-child joint reading activities in the home. The Emergent Literacy Skills Assessment was administered to participating children to evaluate their emergent literacy skills in six areas including identifying primary shapes and colors, letter identification, …
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The outcomes of teacher training workshop on parent education focusing on reading with children
… positive attitudes toward the issue of parental reading to children as well as a good knowledge base of how to accomplish it. But, in spite of this, parents actually read aloud to their children very seldom, and little was done by the teachers to promote parental reading. The results of the study …
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From Parent to Child: The Effects of a Home Learning Program on Attitudes and Achievements
… was to determine the effects of the Preschool Reading Experience Program on the attitudes and pre-reading skills of four- and five-year-old children. The subjects were 96 children enrolled in four San Diego preschools, and their parents. The methodology was quasi-experimental with a treatment …
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