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Reading Comprehension Learning Center, Pamela Joy Krocker Jan 1987

Reading Comprehension Learning Center, Pamela Joy Krocker

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The purpose of this project was the development of a reading comprehension learning center that reinforces comprehension skills at the literal, inferential, and evaluative levels, and which also provides practice with basic and sight vocabulary. The contents of this project included a review of the literature related to the topic, a description of objectives on which the cards were based, a description of the materials and methods used to construct the project, and an explanation of how to utilize the project in a primary classroom. Examples of the project including color photographs of the parts of the project that were …

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Raising The Comprehension Level Of The Advantaged Student Through Locus Of Control, Conceptual Prerequisites, And Imagery, Connie R. Lahey Jan 1987

Raising The Comprehension Level Of The Advantaged Student Through Locus Of Control, Conceptual Prerequisites, And Imagery, Connie R. Lahey

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The study was conducted to investigate the possibility of raising the comprehension scores of twenty advantaged students through the use of attribution theory in moving the student's locus of control, concept work, and imaging. The subjects of the control and experimental groups were male and female tenth and eleventh grade summer school students whose comprehension scores were at the fiftieth percentile or below or students who would benefit from comprehension instruction. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests (1978), Level F, Forms 1 and 2 were used respectively for the pretest and posttest. A related sample t test and analysis of covariance was …

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Beethoven And Some Of My Other Pals: A Collective Biography Of Composers Directed Toward The Reading Needs Of The Later Elementary Child, Shirley Ann Cogan Jan 1987

Beethoven And Some Of My Other Pals: A Collective Biography Of Composers Directed Toward The Reading Needs Of The Later Elementary Child, Shirley Ann Cogan

Theses

The book manuscript, Beethoven and Some of My Other Pals , is a non-fiction collective biography of nine composers who are particularly associated with Munich , Bavaria, and Salzburg and Vienna , Austria . The book manuscript is directed toward the reading needs of the later elementary child (ages 10, 11, and 12).

The format includes letters from the author during her musical pilgrimage in July , 1986 to the aforementioned cities. In order to personalize the material, the letters are addressed to her nephew in the United States . Each biography spans the life of the subject from early …

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In Review, Edward J. Dwyer Jan 1987