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Script-Based Reading Lessons And Socialized Language Usage, Joseph James Spencer
Script-Based Reading Lessons And Socialized Language Usage, Joseph James Spencer
Theses Digitization Project
This study focuses in particular on the connections students make to their reading as seen through contextualized language usage. Many educators and curriculum developers suggest that using these new script-based curriculum will help teachers systematize and close gaps in teaching and learning. If unwritten teacher questions and statements are used to redirect students' comprehension about texts occur during the reading lesson, these will be described and analyzed for their effects on the lesson goals and objectives.
Learning Through Literature Versus Scripted Lessons, Leticia Aviles-Parsons
Learning Through Literature Versus Scripted Lessons, Leticia Aviles-Parsons
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to create a guide for planning literature lessons connected to the state mandated curriculum, including today's standards for a fifth grade class and the recently adapted Common Core Standards in Language Arts. This project explains the reading comprehension problems that students in elementary school are facing, especially English learners.
The Use Of Reciprocal Teaching As A Mediational Tool To Enhance Reading Comprehension, Luz Elena Nguyen
The Use Of Reciprocal Teaching As A Mediational Tool To Enhance Reading Comprehension, Luz Elena Nguyen
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to study how Reciprocal Teaching can best serve students in a third grade classroom for reading comprehension. A curriculum was developed to help the classroom teacher find a better way to teach reading comprehension using four important reading strategies: predicting, summarzing, clarifying and questioning. Several mediated tools were developed to enhance reading comprehension with clear explanations on how to implement Reciprocal Teaching with the current curriculum and California Standards on comprehension.
Use Of Read Alouds To Increase Reading Comprehension, Heather Cynthia Williams
Use Of Read Alouds To Increase Reading Comprehension, Heather Cynthia Williams
Theses Digitization Project
There is a shift from learning to read towards reading to learn beginning in the fourth grade. This project focuses on the use of read alouds to teach concepts such as inference, generalization, and drawing conclusions to increase reading comprehension in fourth graders.
Does California's Scripted Curriculum Affect Students' Motivation To Read, Francene Marie Fisher
Does California's Scripted Curriculum Affect Students' Motivation To Read, Francene Marie Fisher
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis looked at the effects of California's adopted scripted learning programs on students' motivation for reading. There is much research about the efficacy of these types of one-size-fits all programs, which claim to be on scientific research.
Computerized Reading Assessment Using The Star Reading Software, Brian Michael Bartlett
Computerized Reading Assessment Using The Star Reading Software, Brian Michael Bartlett
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis focused on the use of a computerized reading assessment program called Star Reading. Reading has been one of the most difficult areas across the curriculum to assess. Reading asssessment differs widely from teacher to teacher, and has traditionally been very subjective.
Irlen Syndrome And The Reading Process, Jodi Beth Altman
Irlen Syndrome And The Reading Process, Jodi Beth Altman
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the project was to determine if a school-wide intervention for students demonstrating symptons of Irlen Syndrome would result in improvements in reading skills and a reduction in physical symptoms that might impede visual processing necessary for successful reading.
Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy
Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy
Theses Digitization Project
This paper will examine what research has revealed about reading and learning in the areas of word recognition, scaffolding to develop understanding, metacognition and application of new knowledge in real world situations. The study then will go on to link what is known about learning to strategies that have already been developed by secondary teachers to increase critical reading skills.
A Study Of The Teaching Methods Of Comprehension Through Isolation And Context, Mahlon A. Smith
A Study Of The Teaching Methods Of Comprehension Through Isolation And Context, Mahlon A. Smith
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.