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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"reading strategy"”.
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The Use of Reading Strategy Prompts in Math
… study explores the use of the three main reading strategy prompts from the cueing system in small group math instruction. It discusses the need for teachers in the secondary school setting to be knowledgeable about the reading process so that they can help struggling readers. The study …
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Effectiveness of the QAR Reading Strategy on Science Reading
<p>The Questions-Answer Relationship (QAR) is a reading strategy that guides student comprehension by allowing the student to demonstrate their ability to determine importance, make inferences, and monitor comprehension through questions. The study was conducted on high school students in physical …
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Metacognitive reading strategy instruction: improving second language reading comprehension and reading motivation
… aims to identify the effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on second language reading comprehension and reading motivation by a meta-analysis and a teaching intervention. There have been contradictory findings in the literature regarding the impacts of metacognitive reading …
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Foundation phase educators' knowledge and attitudes towards implementation of the National Reading Strategy
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirement of the Degree of Doctor of Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2011.
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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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The Effects of Explicit Reading Strategy Instruction and Cooperative Learning on Reading Comprehension in Fourth Grade Students
… direct instruction and cooperative learning on reading comprehension in fourth grade students. A quasi-experimental design was used. There were six cognitive and three affective measures used to collect quantitative data. Cognitive measures included California State Test scores, Accelerated …
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An Exploratory Case Study of Korean L2 Readers’ Reading Strategy Development and Engagement in Online Reciprocal Teaching Classes
… been a dearth of research investigating online reading strategy instruction and its impacts on L2 readers’ reading strategy development and engagement with online reading strategy classes, especially in the Korean context. This exploratory case study explores the development of students’ reading …
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A descriptive study of the effectiveness of reading strategy lessons as indicated by the Reading miscue inventory profiles of selected below average readers
… was to determine the effectiveness of using reading strategy lessons as indicated by Reading Miscue Inventory (RMI) profiles of below average readers to increase reading proficiency. Oral reading miscues of ten below average fifth grade readers were analyzed prior to and following (a) a three …
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Use of Reading Strategy to Assess Reading Medium Effectiveness: Application to Determine the Effects of Reading Medium and Generation in an Active Reading Task
… sharing among professions. However, electronic reading media have still not been well integrated into these settings, especially for non-routine cognitive tasks like active reading. Conflicting results from different measures (e.g., performance, preference) have been reported regarding their …
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Repeated reading for students with special needs
… of implementing variations of the repeated reading strategy with fourth and 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 …
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Examining How Novices, Apprenticing Experts, and Disciplinary Experts Approach Reading Academic Texts
… students are often unprepared for college-level reading, writing, and discourse. It is important to understand how various instructional practices affect students’ reading and writing abilities. The purpose of this study was to explore how reading and writing instruction grounded in a …
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Comprehension of protagonists' goals and intentions: The dynamic relation between reading skill, text characteristics, and reading strategies
… reasons students perform poorly in school Reading difficulties often persist into adulthood with 23% of U.S. adults only meeting basic reading proficiency levels (NCES, 2004). To address this problem, it is critical to identify the underlying cognitive processes that pose the greatest …
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Design, development, and formative evaluation of DB-notebook : a prototype computer-based tool to support less skilled readers
… to support less skilled adult readers through a reading task are described. Less skilled readers are defined as students who have difficulty understanding school-assigned reading material because they lack metacognitive strategies. The prototype, called DB-notebook aims to assist by providing a …
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An exploration of strategy-based reading instruction using expository science text in grades 2-5
This study explored reading strategy-based 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 …
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A study of the English reading comprehension strategies utilised by level-one students at the University of Venda
… of this study was to investigate the English reading strategies utilised by level-one students at the University of Venda. The respondents in this study were three hundred and nine level-one students from various Schools in the University of Venda who were doing English Communication Skills …
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Eye movements in reading strategies : how reading strategies modulate effects of distributed processing and oculomotor control
… has always been aware of the differences in reading behavior induced by individual differences and task demands. This work introduces a novel comprehensive concept of reading strategy, comprising individual differences in reading style and reading skill as well as reader goals. In a series of …
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Devleopmnet of Distriubted Nueral Sysetms for Readnig in Heatlhy and Brian-Injrued Chlidren (If you can read this, you have a well-developed whole word reading system. It should read Development of Distributed Neural Systems for Reading in Healthy and Brain-Injured Children)
… neural pathways may underlie these strategies to reading. Children developing expertise in reading may show a concomitant decrease in reliance on posterior phonological systems supporting decoding as well as an increase in specialization of visual systems. However, the functional organization of …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING AND READING STRATEGIES ON READING SELF-EFFICACY
… investigation into the role that extensive reading and reading strategies play in the cultivation of reading self-efficacy. Conducted over the course of one academic year, how changes in reading self-efficacy translate into changes in reading comprehension was examined. In addition, the …
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An investigation of the effectiveness of TWA on reading comprehension of students with and at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders
… disorders frequently display deficits in reading. One emerging method for addressing these deficits is known as self-regulated strategy development (SRSD). One specific SRSD reading strategy is TWA (Think before reading, think While reading, and think After reading), which teaches students …
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