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Effects Of On-Site Reading Clinical Tutoring On Children's Performance, Abha Gupta
Effects Of On-Site Reading Clinical Tutoring On Children's Performance, Abha Gupta
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications
This research was conducted to study the effects of field-based clinical tutoring on struggling readers. Struggling readers from two grade levels, 3rd and 5th were randomly divided into two groups. One group received individualized tutoring in reading for a semester from apprentice reading clinicians (graduate students in Reading Program) and the other group did not. There were 13 sessions of one hour each per week. The reading performance of students in the two groups was compared on the two available measures in the school, (1) letter grade and (2) STAR results (a computerized diagnostic reading assessment program). Observational and anecdotal …
"Sturdy Black Bridges": Discussing Race, Class, And Gender, Kaavonia Hinton
"Sturdy Black Bridges": Discussing Race, Class, And Gender, Kaavonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications
Black feminist literary theory offers tools that teachers can use to initiate discussions on the issues of race, gender and class to analyze the works of adolescent literature. This feminist theory helps in reading and teaching literature about parallel cultures, like African-Americans and their love for self and community and their recognition of multiple oppressions in a way that differs from feminism.