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Guided Reading: Effects Of Ability Grouping On Reading Levels And Self-Efficacy, Tearrany Nelson
Guided Reading: Effects Of Ability Grouping On Reading Levels And Self-Efficacy, Tearrany Nelson
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This action research study investigated the use of ability grouping during guided reading and if ability grouping had an effect on a student's self-efficacy. The study looks at three first grade classrooms during the 2019-2020 school year. Two of the classrooms used cross-classroom ability grouping focusing on student needs and book levels. The third classroom stayed self-contained and had groups of different levels and needs. Data was collected from Oral Running Records (ORR), the FAST assessments for sight words, word segmenting and sentence reading, and a self-efficacy questionnaire. The ORR's provided the students beginning book levels at the beginning of …