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Full-Text Articles in Education
Best Practices And Resources In Reading Comprehension For Multilingual Learners, Pamella Moura
Best Practices And Resources In Reading Comprehension For Multilingual Learners, Pamella Moura
Michigan Reading Journal
This article investigates different interventions that can support multilingual learners with their reading comprehension needs. It aims to provide kindergarten through 5th grade teachers with evidence-based practices that may support reading comprehension outcomes for multilingual learners. These practices employ different practical strategies teachers can implement in their daily reading and writing routines to support multilingual and monolingual students with reading difficulties which may support their reading comprehension skills. This article emphasizes the needs of strategy development in reading comprehension so multilingual learners can employ these practices independently, over time. Strategies include explicit instruction of predictions, summaries and questioning, developing …
Item Analysis Of Reading Comprehension Questions For English Proficiency Test Using Rasch Model, Henda Harmantia Dewi, Siti Maftuhah Damio, Sukarno Sukarno
Item Analysis Of Reading Comprehension Questions For English Proficiency Test Using Rasch Model, Henda Harmantia Dewi, Siti Maftuhah Damio, Sukarno Sukarno
REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)
The need to take English as a foreign language proficiency test (known as TOEFL [Test of English Language Proficiency]) has been gaining popularity in Indonesia. The increasing demands for such a test and its expensive cost have reinforced many institutions to develop TOEFL instruments and administer the test internally. However, constructing a test instrument is a complex process that makes conducting item analysis become more challenging. Meanwhile, item analysis is crucial to assess the items' quality. Therefore, this study reported the results of statistically analyzing 20 questions of TOEFL reading comprehension that were analyzed in terms of the test reliability, …
The Impact Of Closed Captioning And Student Lexile Reading Levels, Jim L. Pruitt
The Impact Of Closed Captioning And Student Lexile Reading Levels, Jim L. Pruitt
Journal of Educational Leadership in Action
This experimental mixed-methods study explores what happens to student Lexile scores when they use closed captioning. The quantitative data analysis procedures involved in this experimental study consisted of utilizing two-sample t-tests to compare the iReady Lexile scores of the participants [n=38] to that of the researched district students [n=810] that were not using closed captioning in this study. The researcher required participants to complete a baseline iReady test to determine their preexisting Lexile levels. Then after the study, participants both in the researched district and in the study, itself were required to complete an iReady post-test to determine their …
Writing And Reading Connections: Giving Value To Both Sides Of The Same Literacy Coin, Zoi A. Traga Philippakos, Penelope Wiese, Adalea Davis
Writing And Reading Connections: Giving Value To Both Sides Of The Same Literacy Coin, Zoi A. Traga Philippakos, Penelope Wiese, Adalea Davis
The Language and Literacy Spectrum
The purpose of this article is to comment on ways that writing-reading connections can take place enhancing reading comprehension and composition. Drawing from a genre-based instructional approach, examples are provided to explain such connections in the process of (a) a rhetorical analysis conducted on writing prompts and prior to reading, (b) examination of writing purposes and genres for writing and reading, (c) read alouds for retelling and monitoring meaning making, and (d) of critical reading for reviewing purposes and determination of clarity of written ideas. The article concludes with guidelines for classroom teachers and recommendations for the implementation of the …
Reading On The Ropes: A Pilot Study Of An Accelerated Remediation Program With Alternative High School Students, Joanne V. Coggins, Laura C. Briggs
Reading On The Ropes: A Pilot Study Of An Accelerated Remediation Program With Alternative High School Students, Joanne V. Coggins, Laura C. Briggs
Language Arts Journal of Michigan
High school students must read to learn curriculum, yet few interventions are proven to substantially help close literacy gaps for older students with reading deficits. Students with large literacy deficits particularly benefit from explicit, systematic instruction of interventions emphasizing the structure of language (i.e., phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics), aspects of cognition (i.e., problem solving, attention, reasoning, and inferencing), and organization of spoken and written language.
A 14-week pilot study of Readable English, a reading intervention using these structured literacy elements, provided embedded interactive orthography to scaffold online grade level content for students at two alternative high schools ( …
Jordanian Efl Sixth-Grade Students’ Attitudes Towards Using Gamification In Reading Comprehension اتجاهات طلاب الصف السادس الأردنیین متعلمي اللغة الانجليزية لغة أجنبية نحو استخدام الألعاب التحفيزية في فهم المقروء, Rami Ali Abu Sa’Aleek, Abdallah Ahmad Bani Abdel Rahman
Jordanian Efl Sixth-Grade Students’ Attitudes Towards Using Gamification In Reading Comprehension اتجاهات طلاب الصف السادس الأردنیین متعلمي اللغة الانجليزية لغة أجنبية نحو استخدام الألعاب التحفيزية في فهم المقروء, Rami Ali Abu Sa’Aleek, Abdallah Ahmad Bani Abdel Rahman
Jordanian Educational Journal
Abstract:
This study investigated the Jordanian EFL sixth-grade students ’attitudes towards using gamification in reading comprehension lessons. The participants of the study were 35 students from a public school in Jordan. They studied reading comprehension activities through gamification. A questionnaire with 31-items was designed to explore students’ attitudes towards using gamification in reading comprehension lessons. The results indicated that the sixth-grade students had positive attitudes towards the use of gamification in reading comprehensionlessons.
ملخص:
بحيث هذه الدراسة في اتجاهات طلاب الصف السادس الأردنیین متعلمي اللغة الانجليزية لغة أجنبية نحو استخدام الألعاب التحفيزية في دروس فهم المقروء. بلغ عدد المشاركين في …
Predictive Values Of Factors Affecting Reading Comprehension Assessment, Taylor M. Grantham, Matthew Carter, Crystal C. Randolph, Gina M. Doepker
Predictive Values Of Factors Affecting Reading Comprehension Assessment, Taylor M. Grantham, Matthew Carter, Crystal C. Randolph, Gina M. Doepker
Literacy Practice and Research
The complex nature of reading comprehension makes it challenging to assess. Comprehension assessment results frequently do not directly indicate which skills should be addressed to remediate comprehension difficulties. The current study investigated which underlying skills are most related to a common reading comprehension test. The reading skills that were measured in this study include single-word reading accuracy, single-word reading fluency, textual reading fluency and accuracy, oral reading comprehension abilities, and silent reading comprehension abilities. The findings indicate that reading rate is associated with oral reading comprehension abilities and that word reading accuracy is important for oral reading comprehension abilities.
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction For Fifth Graders’ Vocabulary Knowledge And Reading Comprehension: An Action Research Study, Tonia Bauer, Hengtao Tang
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction For Fifth Graders’ Vocabulary Knowledge And Reading Comprehension: An Action Research Study, Tonia Bauer, Hengtao Tang
Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)
This action research aimed to evaluate the impact that explicit vocabulary instruction delivered through Schoology had on the vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension of fifth graders at an urban elementary school in the southeastern United States. A convergent mixed-method approach was applied. The vocabulary and reading comprehension scores and the learner experience survey accounted for the quantitative data. Furthermore, qualitative data gathered from semi-structured interviews were analyzed inductively. Findings show that students' vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension significantly increased after receiving explicit vocabulary instruction, and results marked instruction regarding Latin and Greek roots as areas needing attention. For elementary educators, …
Reading Comprehension Interventions For Students With Learning Disabilities Or Reading Difficulties In Grades 3-12: A Literature Review, 2006-2011, Jessica R. Scott
Reading Comprehension Interventions For Students With Learning Disabilities Or Reading Difficulties In Grades 3-12: A Literature Review, 2006-2011, Jessica R. Scott
LC Journal of Special Education
The purpose of this review is to summarize recent scientific studies of various reading comprehension interventions for students with reading difficulties in grades 3-12 in order to provide a quick reference for administrators and educators who are interested in the latest research on reading comprehension interventions. Additionally, research findings are presented on how to increase the frequency of effective instruction of reading comprehension in the classroom.
Strategies For Helping Struggling Readers Comprehend Expository Text, Julie Beyer
Strategies For Helping Struggling Readers Comprehend Expository Text, Julie Beyer
LC Journal of Special Education
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it is to present the challenges that accompany comprehending expository texts for students who have learning disability. Second, it is to discuss the implication of these challenges for special educators. Third, it is to provide descriptions of pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading teaching strategies that educators can employ to develop comprehension strategies for expository texts used among students who are struggling to comprehend.
Does Rap Increased Reading Comprehension Levels?, Crystal Hall
Does Rap Increased Reading Comprehension Levels?, Crystal Hall
LC Journal of Special Education
The purpose of this research is to determine whether using a learning strategy will increase reading comprehension for students with mental retardation. The specific learning strategy implemented in the survey is called RAP. The researcher hopes that students will be able to generalize the strategy to other academic classes to aid in reading comprehension of course material.
The Effect Of Stations And Centers Strategy On Jordanian Efl Tenth Grade Students’ Motivation In Reading Comprehension أثر استراتيجية المحطات والمراكز في دافعية طالبات الصف العاشر الأردنيات في الاستيعاب القرائي, Ream Khawaldeh', Prof. Abdallah Ahmad Baniabdelrahman, Dr. Khaled Al-Omari
The Effect Of Stations And Centers Strategy On Jordanian Efl Tenth Grade Students’ Motivation In Reading Comprehension أثر استراتيجية المحطات والمراكز في دافعية طالبات الصف العاشر الأردنيات في الاستيعاب القرائي, Ream Khawaldeh', Prof. Abdallah Ahmad Baniabdelrahman, Dr. Khaled Al-Omari
Jordanian Educational Journal
ملخص:
هدفت هـذه الدراسـة إلـى استقصـاء أثـر التـدريس باسـتخدام استراتيجية المحطات والمراكز فـي تحسين مستوى دافعية طالبات الصف العاشر الأردنيات نحـو الاستيعاب القرائي. حيث قام الباحث باختيار المدرسة بشكل قصدي. وقد تكونت عينة الدراسة التي تم اختيارها عشوائيا من 80 طالبة. إذ قسمت العينة الى مجوعتين, مجموعة ضابطة مكونة من 40 طالبة ومجموعة تجريبية مكونة من 40 طالبة. وقد طُبّقت الاستبانة على المجموعة الضابطة التي تم تطبيق الاستراتيجية عليها. أظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن مستوى دافعية الطالبات نحو استخدام استراتيجية المحطات والمراكزفي حصص مهارات الاستيعاب القرائي كانت إيجابية ومرتفعة. وبالاعتماد على هذه النتائج, يوصي الباحثون باستخدام هذه الاستراتجية في تدريس مهارات …
The Effect Of A Reciprocal-Based Instructional Program On Ninth-Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension In Public Schools In Jordan أثر استخدام برنامج تدريسي قائم على التدريس التبادلي على مهارات الاستيعاب القرائي لدى طلبة الصف التاسع في المدارس الحكومية في الاردن, Mohammad Ahmad Al Jboor, Prof. Abdallah Ahmad Bani Abdelrahman
The Effect Of A Reciprocal-Based Instructional Program On Ninth-Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension In Public Schools In Jordan أثر استخدام برنامج تدريسي قائم على التدريس التبادلي على مهارات الاستيعاب القرائي لدى طلبة الصف التاسع في المدارس الحكومية في الاردن, Mohammad Ahmad Al Jboor, Prof. Abdallah Ahmad Bani Abdelrahman
Jordanian Educational Journal
Abstract: This study aimed at investigating the effect of using a reciprocal-based instructional program on improving reading comprehension among ninth grade students in Jordan. The sample of the study consisted of 107 ninth grade male and female students in the academic year 2017/2018 in four schools in North West Badia Directorate of Education. Two classroom sections were chosen to represent the experimental groups and the other two were chosen to represent the control groups. The study followed a quasi-experimental design, where the experimental groups were taught reading comprehension using a reciprocal based instructional program and the control groups were taught …
Using Co-Teaching In Developing Reading Skills Among Female Students With Learning Disabilities And Their Regular Peers, Maha Hamad Alsheeha Phd
Using Co-Teaching In Developing Reading Skills Among Female Students With Learning Disabilities And Their Regular Peers, Maha Hamad Alsheeha Phd
International Journal for Research in Education
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using co- teaching on developing reading skills for students with learning disabilities and their regular peers on a sample of fourth grade students at primary school in Riyadh. The subjects for this study were (74) female students distributed into two groups (control and experimental), each group consisting of (30) regular students and (7) students with learning disability. A pre and post-test was applied to both groups to measure their achievement in the reading skills: reading accuracy, speed and comprehension. The two groups were taught (40) lessons, each session lasting …
Writing That Values Multiple Ways Of Knowing: Supporting Early Career Teachers’ Efforts To Promote Literacy Development, Lauren A. May, Heather Wright
Writing That Values Multiple Ways Of Knowing: Supporting Early Career Teachers’ Efforts To Promote Literacy Development, Lauren A. May, Heather Wright
Virginia English Journal
Early career secondary English teachers manage challenges that complicate their efforts to support students’ literacy development, including feelings of inadequacy as teachers. This paper focuses on low-stakes writing strategies that teachers might use to promote literacy development in the classroom and decrease their feelings of inadequacy. The authors, Lauren and Heather, use the lenses of dialogic pedagogy and the reflective turn to draw upon literature on the blending of reading and writing instruction and elements of autoethnography to examine their efforts to support students’ literacy development. Working from the literature and pedagogical reflections, the authors offer suggestions for instructional practice …
Simplified But Not The Same: Tracing Numeracy Events Through Manually Simplified Newsela Articles, Ellen C. Agnello
Simplified But Not The Same: Tracing Numeracy Events Through Manually Simplified Newsela Articles, Ellen C. Agnello
Numeracy
New York-based education startup Newsela has quickly gained popularity with K-12 educators in the six years since its launch. Its website boasts that it serves 90% of schools in the United States including the 1.5 million teachers they employ and their 20 million students. But what makes it so popular? Teachers are drawn to its Common Core-aligned informational texts which facilitate content-area connections while exposing students to important current events. Likely the most appealing aspect of the platform is its compatibility with differentiation, as it makes available five iterations of each article at varying levels of complexity or Lexile which …
The Effect Of Drama Based Instruction On Reading Comprehension, Janee Udalla
The Effect Of Drama Based Instruction On Reading Comprehension, Janee Udalla
Innovations and Critical Issues in Teaching and Learning
Educators might believe that classroom drama is comparable to putting on a theatrical production and might avoid it because they fear it will involve time-consuming planning, use of props, and expensive scripts (McMaster, 1998). Unfortunately, this view can discourage educators from using an important teaching tool that can improve students’ reading comprehension skills. However, educators should explore the use of drama-based instruction and the benefits it may provide to their students. The methods teachers implement in the classroom greatly affect the attitudes and learning of their students (Author, 2008). Therefore, the purpose of this article is to identify the benefits …
Let's Read A Story!: Collaborative Meaning Making, Student Engagement, And Vocabulary Building Through The Use Of Interactive Read-Alouds, Shaya Helbig, Susan V. Piazza
Let's Read A Story!: Collaborative Meaning Making, Student Engagement, And Vocabulary Building Through The Use Of Interactive Read-Alouds, Shaya Helbig, Susan V. Piazza
Michigan Reading Journal
The interactive read-aloud has long been a practice during early literacy instruction in schools and in homes. Reading aloud to children provides a platform for teachers or caregivers to model meaning-making interactions with text. Students are able to collaboratively engage in conversations to create a collective understanding of texts. Interactions during a read-aloud can foster engagement, create meaning, and promote vocabulary acquisition. This article examines current research that supports the use of interactive read alouds to engage learners in meaning-making processes and translates research and theory into practical recommendations for effective interactive read-alouds.
The Effect Of Using Metacognitive Monitoring Strategy On Developing Reading Comprehension In English Language Among Tenth Grade Students In North Eastern Badiah Directorate Of Education, Ziad Salem Alshurfat, Ahmad H. Alkhawaldeh
The Effect Of Using Metacognitive Monitoring Strategy On Developing Reading Comprehension In English Language Among Tenth Grade Students In North Eastern Badiah Directorate Of Education, Ziad Salem Alshurfat, Ahmad H. Alkhawaldeh
Jordanian Educational Journal
This study aimed at exploring the effect of using metacognitive monitoring strategy on developing reading comprehension in English language among tenth grade students in North Eastern Badiah directorate of education. The study used the quasi experimental design.The sample of the study consisted of 123 male and female students who were purposefully chosen from the tenth grade students at Alkaum Alahmer comprehensive secondary school for girls, Alkaum Alahmer comprehensive secondary school for boys, Um Aljemal comprehensive secondary school for girls and Um Aljemal comprehensive secondary school for boys. The experimental and control groups were assigned randomly. The groups of the study …
Increasing College Entrance Testing Vocabulary For Secondary Students With High-Incidence Disabilities, Cynthia C. Massey, Margarett E. Shippen, Margaret M. Flores, Cindy Head
Increasing College Entrance Testing Vocabulary For Secondary Students With High-Incidence Disabilities, Cynthia C. Massey, Margarett E. Shippen, Margaret M. Flores, Cindy Head
Georgia Educational Researcher
This study investigated the effects of an instructional technology device, specifically, a computer-based graphic organizer, called the Real-World Connections Vocabulary graphic organizer (Ellis, 2015), on vocabulary acquisition for college entrance testing skills of students with high-incidence disabilities. Although graphic organizers have been studied since the 1960’s, there is very little research regarding the effectiveness of computer-based graphic organizers when used with high school students with mild disabilities, and their benefit acquiring college entrance exam vocabulary knowledge, namely, the ACT exam. By means of a single-subject, multiple probe across participants design, this study demonstrated that a functional relation did exist between …
Pre-Service Teacher Implementation Of Strategy Instruction: Effects On The Comprehension Of Middle School Students, Brennan Chandler, Jessica Hagaman
Pre-Service Teacher Implementation Of Strategy Instruction: Effects On The Comprehension Of Middle School Students, Brennan Chandler, Jessica Hagaman
The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship
Recent legislation related to dyslexia has increased the focus on how reading is being taught in schools and how teachers are prepared to teach reading at the pre-service level. One promising teaching approach to supporting students with reading difficulties is the self- regulated strategy development (SRSD) model. However, there is limited research regarding whether the model can be implemented by pre-service teachers while still remaining effective. This study investigated the effects and fidelity of implementation of pre-service teacher implemented SRSD on the reading comprehension of middle school students identified as struggling in reading. A multiple baseline design across participants was …
Examining Elementary Students' Purposeful And Ancillary Prior Knowledge Activation When Reading Grade Level Texts, Courtney Hattan, Daniel L. Dinsmore
Examining Elementary Students' Purposeful And Ancillary Prior Knowledge Activation When Reading Grade Level Texts, Courtney Hattan, Daniel L. Dinsmore
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Prior knowledge activation is a crucial component of reading comprehension. Previous studies have examined students’ prompted (or solicited) purposeful knowledge activation, which occurs when the explicit goal is to activate knowledge, as well as ancillary knowledge activation, which is when students indirectly use their prior knowledge to fill in gaps in the text, form an opinion, or question the author. However, little is known regarding elementary students’ unprompted (or unsolicited) purposeful and ancillary activation of prior knowledge while reading grade level texts. The purpose of the current study was to (a) examine differences between third and fifth grade students on …
Crossing The Final Frontier: Exploring The Numeracy Demands Of Texts Read In English Language Arts, Ellen C. Agnello, Kevin M. Agnello
Crossing The Final Frontier: Exploring The Numeracy Demands Of Texts Read In English Language Arts, Ellen C. Agnello, Kevin M. Agnello
Numeracy
Incited by the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ 2009 Reading Framework and the Common Core State Standards, recent shifts in national education goals have urged English language arts teachers to make curriculum adjustments. One such adjustment is to shift their focus from fiction, which has traditionally dominated the curriculum, to nonfiction. Doing so has the potential to increase students’ exposure to informational texts which often employ numeric modes to represent quantitative data, thus necessitating numeracy knowledge. This article presents a study of 60 nonfiction texts taught in secondary ELA classrooms. Through analysis of these texts, it addresses the questions: Which …
Students' Reading Comprehension Skills Of Science And Physics Texts, Wahyuni Handayani, Wawan Setiawan, Parlindungan Sinaga, Andi Suhandi
Students' Reading Comprehension Skills Of Science And Physics Texts, Wahyuni Handayani, Wawan Setiawan, Parlindungan Sinaga, Andi Suhandi
Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA
Reading comprehension of physics texts is a neglected area in physics curricula. This article reports an investigation the critical reading of physics texts among students of physics education. Students' performance reading comprehension on science text were investigated using reading comprehension test. Students' reading comprehension of science texts are tested with the help of reading comprehension which is designed with reference to TOEFL reading test and translated into Bahasa Indonesia. Eight component skills of comprehension were examined. To assess the skill a reading comprehension of physics texts, true-false-unreported tests were used. It was found that the skill required to discriminate unreported …
The Power Of Pictures: Drawing On Visual Sign-Systems To Teach Inference In Gerstein’S The Man Between Two Towers, Shannon Howrey
The Power Of Pictures: Drawing On Visual Sign-Systems To Teach Inference In Gerstein’S The Man Between Two Towers, Shannon Howrey
The Journal of Balanced Literacy Research and Instruction
The ability to infer while reading is a critical part of meaning-making. Readers who infer go beyond the literal words on the page by adding information to the text and making implicit connections between the text and their prior knowledge (Barr, Blacowicz, Bates, Katz, & Kaufman, 2013). This skill allows them to establish causal relationships between story events, connect the events to their personal experiences, and determine relationships, motivations, and emotions within and between characters. Drawing on dual coding theory and visual literacy principles, the author demonstrates how the lines in the illustrations of The Man Between Two Towers assist …
Review Of Think Big With Think Alouds: A Three-Step Planning Process That Develops Strategic Readers, Susan J. Chambre
Review Of Think Big With Think Alouds: A Three-Step Planning Process That Develops Strategic Readers, Susan J. Chambre
The Language and Literacy Spectrum
In Think Big with Think Alouds: A Three-step Planning Process That Develops Strategic Readers (2017), Molly K. Ness provides classroom teachers with a detailed three-step process for developing think aloud procedures during classroom literacy instruction. The book assists teachers in identifying stopping points in narrative and expository text. Ness also includes multiple scripted think alouds with comprehensive explanations for both narrative and expository text. Additionally, practical tips for promoting student adoption of higher order thinking skills are provided in the form of sentence starters and strategy symbols. The procedures outline in Think Big with Think Alouds will empower classroom teachers …
History In 140 Characters: Twitter To Support Reading Comprehension And Argumentation In Digital-Humanities Pedagogy, Kalani Craig
History In 140 Characters: Twitter To Support Reading Comprehension And Argumentation In Digital-Humanities Pedagogy, Kalani Craig
The Emerging Learning Design Journal
Click-bait headlines that tackle the modern phenomenon of social media often rail against the stultifying effects of too much Twitter. At the same time, productive educational use of Twitter in the classroom is a particularly germane area of study for digital humanists, who consider Twitter a central piece of their community-building practices. This case-study analysis addresses the use of microblogging by using activity theory to understand how social media can be harnessed to help students quickly appropriate the norms of professional historians in a discipline they often encounter as passive listeners in a large lecture course. Students reimagined Prokopios’ biography …
Reaching Below Level Ell’S Reading Comprehension, Olivia T. Braunworth, Yvonne Franco Ph.D.
Reaching Below Level Ell’S Reading Comprehension, Olivia T. Braunworth, Yvonne Franco Ph.D.
Journal of Practitioner Research
The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in mainstream classrooms is increasing every year. Developing reading comprehension skills in lower level ELL students can be a challenging but important task for educators. It is crucial for classroom teachers to identify students’ proficiency levels, and then differentiate instruction to meet the reading needs for each of these students. As an elementary classroom teacher, this teacher inquiry study investigates four strategies including: visuals/realia, graphic organizers, language objectives, and building background as a means to support reading comprehension skills among three participants in a third grade classroom. The study investigates the research question, …
Reading With Understanding: A Global Expectation, Mary Shea, Maria Anne Ceprano
Reading With Understanding: A Global Expectation, Mary Shea, Maria Anne Ceprano
Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education
Abstract:
This article outlines the complexity of reading with understanding, what is required for full and deep comprehension, the state of affairs with regard to reading comprehension in developed countries, possible etiologies for low performances, and suggestions for instruction in specific skills and strategies to improve students’ demonstrated achievement in daily lessons as well as on global assessments. Recognizing the commonality of this concern among nations, a need to examine universally accepted tenets for successful reading comprehension as well as local etiologies that impede it becomes increasingly important. Such tenets are skills and strategies that address all of Irwin’s micro …
A Case Study Of Formative Assessment To Support Teaching Of Reading Comprehension For English Learners, Jane Robin Shore, Mikyung-Kim Wolf, Margaret Heritage
A Case Study Of Formative Assessment To Support Teaching Of Reading Comprehension For English Learners, Jane Robin Shore, Mikyung-Kim Wolf, Margaret Heritage
Journal of Educational Research and Innovation
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