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Differentiating Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Nwea Data, Robert A. Reetz
Differentiating Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Nwea Data, Robert A. Reetz
Theses and Graduate Projects
Just as the population of Minnesota students in inner-city and first ring-suburban high schools continues to grow more diverse in ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ability, interest and motivation, so too grows the expectation that all students show adequate yearly progress. Given the important challenge of holding all different types of students to the same rigorous academic standard and with the goal of maximizing individual reading comprehension growth, a series of differentiated units was developed using data from the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measuring Academic Progress (MAP) test. The student data generated from the MAP test along with NWEA's Descartes "Continuum of …
Strategies And Methods Of Reciprocal Teaching As Defined, Revised, And Implemented By Individual Teachers Across The K-L2 Spectrum, Linday Peters
Strategies And Methods Of Reciprocal Teaching As Defined, Revised, And Implemented By Individual Teachers Across The K-L2 Spectrum, Linday Peters
Theses and Graduate Projects
Reciprocal Teaching is an instructional activity that takes place between students and teachers while reading segments of text. The dialogue is lead by the actions of predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing. The teachers trains the students in the four actions, or strategies, and then gradually releases responsibility to the students according to their maturity and readiness levels. The purpose of this paper was to examine how three teachers from a school district in Minnesota used the concept of Reciprocal Teaching in their classrooms. The first objective was to discover how each teacher defined the concept. From there the researched focused …