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Savannah M. Heintzman; Nicole J. Conrad; S. Hélène Deacon – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Young children clearly know quite a bit about the conventions of written language; for instance, 5-year-old children are sensitive to the fact that words tend to include both consonants and vowels, rather than just one or the other. The core theoretical debate lies in whether this understanding of sub-lexical orthographic regularities…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Knowledge Level, Achievement Gains, Children
Hsuan-Hui Wang; Elizabeth Swanson; Sharon Vaughn – Journal of Special Education, 2023
Vocabulary is a prominent contributor to reading comprehension. However, little is known about how students with disabilities with lower vocabulary performance respond to Tier 1 instruction, or how their vocabulary knowledge relates to their content acquisition. To examine the differential impact of Tier 1 instruction for U.S. middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Herb Turner; Annette Turner – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Reading comprehension is among the most challenging and complex skills to teach and research. Doing both well is critical to improving the reading comprehension proficiency of 67% of grade 4 students in U.S. public schools who scored below basic on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress. This Chapter presents Knowledge Acquisition…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary Education, Educational Improvement, Knowledge Level
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Hsuan-Hui Wang; Li-Yu Hung – Annals of Dyslexia, 2025
With a focus on content-area reading, this study aimed to (a) understand the sources and prevalence of concurrent and specific difficulties in word-level skills, vocabulary, and knowledge among adolescent struggling readers (ASRs) and (b) explore the relations among reading skills, profiles, and reading comprehension. A dual-measure screening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Adolescents
Lee, Yentl; Cox, Eleanor – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research-based multi-text strategies (MTC) comprised of two-step verification, discrepancy-induced, cognitive-affective engagement, and reading as problem-solving models may assist students in furthering their reading comprehension in this Internet-based society. The purpose of this statewide quantitative study of principals in Title I elementary…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Principals, Elementary Schools, Disadvantaged Schools
Adria Waters – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The link between vocabulary knowledge acquisition and its effect on reading comprehension has been well established over years of research; however, students from low income backgrounds may have less access to the opportunities that allow for the building of this vocabulary knowledge prior to and including entry into formal schooling. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Low Income Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Artuso, Caterina; Palladino, Paola – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
In the current study, we investigated the role of vocabulary knowledge in the relation between working memory (WM) and reading comprehension, in a sample of 55 typically developing 8-year-old Italian children. The role of WM in comprehension is well-established, as both involve similar processes for successful task performance (i.e., active…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Hong, Huang-Yao; Lee, Yuan-Hsuan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Reading motivation can greatly impact reading comprehension, but it tends to diminish in and beyond elementary school. This study employs knowledge building pedagogy to advance reading motivation and comprehension in an elementary Chinese language arts class. Participants were twenty-four third graders who spent one class period (ie, 40 minutes)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation
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Chan, Yi-Chih – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore the contributions of phonological awareness (PA) and morphological awareness (MA) to the reading comprehension skills of Chinese-speaking children with hearing loss (HL) and examine the possible mediation effect of vocabulary knowledge on the relationships of PA and MA with their reading comprehension. Method:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Metalinguistics, Vocabulary
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Kaya Özgül, Bengisu; Ates, Seyit – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
This study aims to examine the writing performance of primary school fourth-grade students in relation to the student-level variables (writing, reading comprehension, self-regulation-based writing, writing motivation, and writing anxiety) and classroom-level (teacher) variables (knowledge of text-writing instruction and text-writing instruction…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing Achievement, Student Characteristics
Kelly Hackett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative exploratory causal-comparative study investigated the relationship between public and private K-3 schoolteachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge and instructional practices of phonemic awareness and phonics, the two best predictors of reading comprehension proficiency. Gough and Tunmer's (1986) Simple View of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness
Douglas Malcolm Mosher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Domain-specific vocabulary knowledge is an important precursor to overall knowledge acquisition, which is essential to reading and comprehending grade-level texts. There are a number of malleable factors within the classroom that can be shaped by teachers and policy makers, yet additional empirical evidence is needed to uncover and evaluate those…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Level, Transfer of Training, General Education
Margaret Osgood Opatz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the extent to which preservice teachers could identify various academic language markers (general academic and discipline-specific vocabulary, passive voice, nominalization, logical connections, and referents--pronouns and synonyms) in complex texts and describe the language that make texts…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Academic Language, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
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Zhao, Aiping; Guo, Ying; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study examined the direct and indirect relations of foundational language skills (vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and orthographic knowledge), higher-order cognitive skills (inference making and comprehension monitoring), and word reading to reading comprehension in Chinese. Consistent with the hierarchical relations specified in the Direct…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary, Syntax, Written Language
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Alqraini, Faisl M. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2022
Improving reading skills is considered one of education's highest priorities. The present study investigated teachers' knowledge of reading skills instruction in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A mixed-methods design was used to obtain data that would improve understanding of teachers' knowledge about teaching reading skills to d/Deaf and hard…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Deafness
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