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Developing Students' Reading Comprehesion Through Whole Language, Zelda Marie Thomas
Developing Students' Reading Comprehesion Through Whole Language, Zelda Marie Thomas
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the study is to investigate the motivational affects of Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI) and generative themes applications in the effort to change students' attitude and behavior in reading novels and volume reading materials to improve ninth grade reading comprehension. A descriptive six-week qualitative study on improving ninth grade students' reading comprehension through teaching the concept of whole language and Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI) was conducted.
Assessing English Learners: Authentic Evaluation At The Elementary Level, Marco Antonio Mendoza
Assessing English Learners: Authentic Evaluation At The Elementary Level, Marco Antonio Mendoza
Theses Digitization Project
This project explores various forms of assessing English learners within the language domains of reading, writing, and oral language. The project also looks ath the California English Language Development Test (CELDT) as part of its study.
Whole Language Curriculum For English Learners In Elementary Schools, Norma Alicia Alvarado
Whole Language Curriculum For English Learners In Elementary Schools, Norma Alicia Alvarado
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to propose a pedagogy that adds, builds, and uses the student's language and culture to speak, read and write English. This project establishes the need for a comprehensive model of instruction for English learners in elementary schools.
Guided Reading: Providing Reading Instruction For Struggling Readers To Build Their Comprehension Strategies During Independent Reading, Debra Gregory Peters
Guided Reading: Providing Reading Instruction For Struggling Readers To Build Their Comprehension Strategies During Independent Reading, Debra Gregory Peters
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study was to observe, assess, evaluate, instruct, and assess again the benefits of guided reading for one struggling student through a case study venue. The guided reading component of reading instruction has more than one facet to the acquisition of language. These facets are designed to strengthen the student's reading abilities.
Constructivism And Mediated Learning In Designing English-As-A Foreign-Language Instruction, Chun-Hsiu Chen
Constructivism And Mediated Learning In Designing English-As-A Foreign-Language Instruction, Chun-Hsiu Chen
Theses Digitization Project
Social interaction is the foundation of knowledge construction in a constructivist classroom. This project proposes a mediated instruction that is based on the theory of constructivism and social interaction to help new adult immigrants successfully achieve English competence and adapt quickly to the culture of the United States.
College-Level Reading And Writing: Considering Curriculum From A Postmodern Perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton
College-Level Reading And Writing: Considering Curriculum From A Postmodern Perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton
Theses Digitization Project
This project presents qualitative investigations into the relation of science systems to education systems, and suggests post modern constructs as models of systemic change, with application toward reading and writing literacy for the college-level adult learning.
Teaching Vocabulary Through Integrated Curriculum Improves Reading Comprehension, Linda Carol Cox
Teaching Vocabulary Through Integrated Curriculum Improves Reading Comprehension, Linda Carol Cox
Theses Digitization Project
This investigation was designed to determine if teaching vocabulary through integrating English and Social Studies curricula would provide tenth grade students who are poor readers with strategies to improve their reading comprehension. The strategies used were designed to support struggling readers and English language development students to connect denotative and connotative meanings of words found in the novel Animal Farm to their social studies class' content.
Creative, Imaginative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Using Storytelling And Drama, Man-Lin Rau
Creative, Imaginative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Using Storytelling And Drama, Man-Lin Rau
Theses Digitization Project
With a view to improve English teaching, this project provides creative teaching methods for English teachers of elementary schools in Taiwan. Storytelling, creative writing, and creative drama are interesting and lively activities that are used to motivate students to learn English.
Staff Development For Whole-Language Teacher In Taiwan English As A Foreign Language, Chung-Ju Lai
Staff Development For Whole-Language Teacher In Taiwan English As A Foreign Language, Chung-Ju Lai
Theses Digitization Project
This project explores the Whole Language method for developing Taiwanese students' language proficiency in both Chinese and English. It includes sections on current practice in primary-level instruction, teaching methods, learner-centered literacy, crosscultural teaching and learning, and school administration. It provides a theoretical framework for training Whole Language teachers, an instructional unit and a strategy for assessment.
Online Storybook As A Facilitator For English As A Second Language Learning, Pei-Chen Tsai
Online Storybook As A Facilitator For English As A Second Language Learning, Pei-Chen Tsai
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to develop an online storybook as an ESL (English as a second language) or EFL (English as a Foreign language) learning facilitator for beginning english learners.
Gender Issues, Core Curriculum, And Statewide Content Standards, Scott Douglas Godwin
Gender Issues, Core Curriculum, And Statewide Content Standards, Scott Douglas Godwin
Theses Digitization Project
This project is a discussion of the continuing need to address gender issues while teaching core curriculum in English classes at the secondary level.
Patterns Of Invented Spelling In Spanish, Mercedes Pérez
Patterns Of Invented Spelling In Spanish, Mercedes Pérez
Theses Digitization Project
This study proposes to examine the invented spelling patterns that Spanish speaking children create in their writing. Their writing samples were then transcribed and each word was categorized as either conventional or an invented spelling.
Promoting Creative English Teaching Using Chinese Culture For Elementary Schooling In Taiwan, Ya-Chi Lee
Promoting Creative English Teaching Using Chinese Culture For Elementary Schooling In Taiwan, Ya-Chi Lee
Theses Digitization Project
To make English an interesting subject for elementary school students, teachers need to know what material attracts students, how to motivate students, and how to release students' creativity. Therefore, This project incorporates the concepts of multiple intelligences, motivation, culture and language, and development of creativity to provide a model for promoting creative English teaching in the elementary schools of Taiwan. In addition, the content of the unit, based on Chinese culture and the comparison of Chinese and American cultures, is an innovative curriculum designed to motivate students to learn English.
Word Study: An Interactive Approach To Word Solving, Nancy Watkins Walker
Word Study: An Interactive Approach To Word Solving, Nancy Watkins Walker
Theses Digitization Project
This project addresses the problems some second grade students face when reading and writing due to decoding and encoding confusions and difficulties.
Readers Theatre For Critical/Creative/Cooperative English Language Learning, Xiangqing Huang
Readers Theatre For Critical/Creative/Cooperative English Language Learning, Xiangqing Huang
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis was written in hope that it will serve as a stimulant to spur innovative ideas in EFL teaching and learning in Taiwan.
Embellishing The Art Of Writing Instead Of Impairing It During First-Grade Studies, Maria Carmen Canelo
Embellishing The Art Of Writing Instead Of Impairing It During First-Grade Studies, Maria Carmen Canelo
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
An Examination Of Spelling Development In One Third Grade Class, Debra Lee Hitter
An Examination Of Spelling Development In One Third Grade Class, Debra Lee Hitter
Theses Digitization Project
Spelling research was conducted on one classroom of third grade students to determine if developmentally appropriate word study activities would help them to improve their spelling skills.
A Guidebook For Implementing A Writer's Workshop, Kimberly Mackay Hartnett
A Guidebook For Implementing A Writer's Workshop, Kimberly Mackay Hartnett
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to provide beginning teachers or teachers new to writing instruction with a step-by-step guideline for implementing writer's workshop in a K-3 classroom. The first eight weeks of writer's workshop are outlined and defined complete with prompts and reflections teachers can use to make this strategy responsive to the needs of their students.19 440 0 Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino, 1998.
The Book Look Nook: An Informational System Literature Search Program, David Roy Karlquist
The Book Look Nook: An Informational System Literature Search Program, David Roy Karlquist
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
A Model Of The Reading Process Applied In Efl Reading In Taiwan, I-Chen Wang
A Model Of The Reading Process Applied In Efl Reading In Taiwan, I-Chen Wang
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Successful Strategies For Sixth Grade Students, Joan Brennan Molinaro
Successful Strategies For Sixth Grade Students, Joan Brennan Molinaro
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Supporting The Emergent Writer In Grade 1, Donna Wakeland Stark
Supporting The Emergent Writer In Grade 1, Donna Wakeland Stark
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Bilingual Policies Are Affected By Alternative Programs And Public Opinion: (A Study Of Alternative Bilingual Programs And Public Opinion In California From 1994-1996), Katherine Lynn Kimura-Gorecki
Bilingual Policies Are Affected By Alternative Programs And Public Opinion: (A Study Of Alternative Bilingual Programs And Public Opinion In California From 1994-1996), Katherine Lynn Kimura-Gorecki
Theses Digitization Project
The researcher reviewed the Eastman Project, immersion programs, the Westminister Program and anti-bilingual sentiment to conclude that bilingual policies are affected by alternative programs and public opinion.
The New Title I: A Handbook For Reading Instruction In A Year-Round Middle School, Wendel Roy Morden
The New Title I: A Handbook For Reading Instruction In A Year-Round Middle School, Wendel Roy Morden
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Spelling Instruction For Beginning Writers In Whole Language Classrooms, Gabriele Lenz
Spelling Instruction For Beginning Writers In Whole Language Classrooms, Gabriele Lenz
Theses Digitization Project
Teachers of beginning writers, who believe in a whole language philosophy for teaching language arts, are faced with the challenge of integrating spelling instruction into their writing programs. Traditional approaches that involve word lists and weekly spelling tests are not in accordance with whole language beliefs.
Publishing Class Books In First Grade: Making The Reading-Writing Connection, H. Lawrence Heywood
Publishing Class Books In First Grade: Making The Reading-Writing Connection, H. Lawrence Heywood
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Integrating A Science/Language Arts Curriculum Through The Use Of Theme Cycles In A First And Third Grade Classroom, Mary Carrillo, Lorena Montoya
Integrating A Science/Language Arts Curriculum Through The Use Of Theme Cycles In A First And Third Grade Classroom, Mary Carrillo, Lorena Montoya
Theses Digitization Project
A collaborative science curriculum created by a first and third grade class. The students were provided with the global theme of change and were invited to brainstorm topics of interests that were utilized to create a science theme cycle.
Reading And Writing Reciprocity Through Literature-Based Thematic Cycles, Karen Diane Lyon
Reading And Writing Reciprocity Through Literature-Based Thematic Cycles, Karen Diane Lyon
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Helping Classroom Volunteers Have A Positive Impact On Literacy Acquisition, Sheril Lee Bethurum
Helping Classroom Volunteers Have A Positive Impact On Literacy Acquisition, Sheril Lee Bethurum
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Student Storytelling: A Strategy For Developing Oral Literacy In The Intermediate Grades, Rita E. Mccarthy
Student Storytelling: A Strategy For Developing Oral Literacy In The Intermediate Grades, Rita E. Mccarthy
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.