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The Role Of Discourse And Its Effects On Reading Comprehension In The Ela Classroom, Laurie Coville
The Role Of Discourse And Its Effects On Reading Comprehension In The Ela Classroom, Laurie Coville
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy
Researchers have consistently found a link between quality classroom discourse and the increase in student reading comprehension. Classroom discussions help students make sense of fiction and nonfiction texts while deepening their understanding. Incorporating the principles of Vygotsky’s social constructivism as the theoretical framework, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the use of accountable talk sentence stems and the quality of discussion using the fishbowl discussion strategy as a means of increasing student comprehension of a text. Observation of the effects of student discourse of 18 students over the duration of six weeks yielded measurable differences …
Engaging The Disengaged: Using Every Trick In The Book, Brooke Prusaczyk
Engaging The Disengaged: Using Every Trick In The Book, Brooke Prusaczyk
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy
Researchers have affirmed a connection between students’ engagement in reading to their academic achievement. Struggling readers in particular are generally not engaged or motivated to read. While the construct of reading engagement is difficult to measure, a student’s motivation seems to be the driving force behind reading development. Additionally, today’s students are involved in and more motivated by the many different activities outside of school, which poses challenges for both teachers and parents. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of instructional techniques on student engagement in reading. To measure the academic progress of 21 fifth grade …
Fluency: What Does It Really Mean?, Jacquelyn E. Depierro
Fluency: What Does It Really Mean?, Jacquelyn E. Depierro
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy
Shared and repeated readings are assumed to reflect influence on increasing oral reading fluency abilities through accuracy, rate, expression, and phrasing. The purpose of the study was to examine how repeated reading increased students’ oral reading scores across the six-dimensions of fluency transferring phonics instruction to oral reading. Specifically, we tested the repeated reading process that focused on improving early fluency skills on 6-7-year-old students in a first grade classroom who were reading at or below grade level expectations and received a score of 2 or below in terms of their oral reading fluency as measured by the Fountas and …
The Mania Of Morphemic Analysis: Multisyllabic, Meaningful, Magical, Jennifer Fritz
The Mania Of Morphemic Analysis: Multisyllabic, Meaningful, Magical, Jennifer Fritz
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy
As academic expectations have increased in recent years due to the rigors of the Common Core State Standards, students are encountering a greater rate of multisyllabic words earlier in their schooling. Proficiency in reading has not paralleled this upward trend. Students are not receiving sufficient instruction to enable them to successfully decode and derive meaning from the multisyllabic words in their texts. To ascertain the effects of multisyllabic instruction on student performance in upper elementary students, we formulated an instructional model to teach syllabication and word morphology to determine if explicit instruction in syllabication and structural analysis had an effect …
Discourse In The Elementary Classroom, Kathryn Hardy
Discourse In The Elementary Classroom, Kathryn Hardy
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy
As literacy standards across the country grow more rigorous, literacy practices need to follow suit. With the implementation of the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards in 2010, classroom instruction in the facilitation of student discourse has become not only beneficial, but required. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an instructional framework for student discourse called Statement Stem Discourse/Accountable Talk (SSD/AT). This instructional frame included discussion stems, teacher prompts, and guidelines for student responses. This study observed the impacts of discourse on 19 students over the course of six weeks. With a focus on questions …
Employing Engagement To Enhance Literacy Learning, Kerry Zrenda
Employing Engagement To Enhance Literacy Learning, Kerry Zrenda
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy
Numerous studies have identified a symbiotic relationship between student engagement and academic achievement. However, over the last three years, nearly half of Connecticut’s students have failed to meet the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts. Social constructivism and metacognitive theories frame this study, which aimed to examine instructional techniques that positively impacted student engagement. Specifically, we used engagement inventories to record student behaviors before, during, and after a six-week instructional period, throughout which we implemented several different engagement techniques. We coded student behaviors in order to analyze the effects that heightened student choice, structured peer discourse tools, and …