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Shanell Lee-Angry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The majority of U.S fourth graders are not proficient in reading. With lawmakers in some U.S. states enacting "Read by Grade 3" laws, it is important for teachers to be well prepared to teach reading to their students. The purpose of this study was to explore novice kindergarten through second grade (K-2) teachers' perspectives of their…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Paola Pilonieta; Colleen E. Whittingham; Erin K. Washburn – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
By April 2020 public schools throughout the country closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the brink of these turbulent times, we concluded a larger survey study describing first grade literacy instruction in February 2020. Having documented a year of pre-pandemic literacy instruction, we then reached out to the same participants to report on…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Caroline R. van der Mescht – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: The context of this research is reading literacy instruction in Foundation Phase classrooms in South Africa. Although large-scale studies have researched learner performance, little is known of the nuances of teachers' practice, particularly in the non-verbal realm. This research seeks to address that gap. Aim: This research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Grade 1, Elementary School Teachers
Doris Luft Baker; Lana Santoro – Reading Teacher, 2023
In this manuscript we show how readalouds can significantly enrich student vocabulary and comprehension by demonstrating enhancements that will foster student learning and language development. We anchor our examples to empirical evidence demonstrating that the content of a readaloud (i.e., the what we teach) as well as the quality of the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Vocabulary Development
De La Cruz, Denisse Giovanna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Lorenzo De Zavala is a low-income school in West Dallas, Texas, and a part of the large Dallas Independent School District. Reading achievement has been low and stagnant over the past few years at this campus due low reading levels in grades Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Additionally, there is a lack of adequate teacher development and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Primary Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
Kaitlynn D. Fraze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Children with Down syndrome exhibit unique learning characteristics that impact their educational progress. Despite this, research on effective reading interventions specifically tailored for this population remains limited. The present study aimed to find the best ways to teach teaching foundational reading skills to children with Down syndrome.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Francis, Janice – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study examined teachers' perceptions with regard to the Guided Reading (GR) approach in elementary level education. Specifically, this study examined the following research questions: a) What are Alberta teachers' perceptions about the GR approach? b) What are Alberta teachers' perceptions about how they enact GR in the classroom? and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
Christine Bassett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
On average, English language learners (ELLs) do not demonstrate the same academic achievement as their native English-speaking peers. The number of ELLs in U.S. schools has increased over the last several decades, as has the scholarly debate on how to best support ELLs in building foundational reading skills. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement
Elena E. Forzani; Christina Dobbs; Christine Leider; Emily Malik; Melanie Gragg; Clara Greszczuk; Courtney Jesberger – Reading Teacher, 2024
This article offers a framework for more equitable classroom reading assessment known as a Critical Assessment Practices (CAPS) approach. CAPS includes a set of four principles that teachers can use to partner with, and to empower, students to support more equitable and informative classroom-based reading assessment. Teachers can apply the CAPS…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Principles
Rachel Schechter; Anna Robinson; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
In a study examining the efficacy of Heggerty's Bridge to Reading program during the 2023-2024 school year, LXD Research measured the program's impact on kindergarten and first-grade students' reading outcomes on the NWEA MAP Reading Fluency assessment. Results indicated that first graders using the program demonstrated significantly greater…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Beginning Reading
Emily Rodgers; Jerome V. D'Agostino; Joel R. Levin; Timothy Rasinski – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: We examine effects on oral reading fluency (defined as automatic word recognition and prosody) when phrase-cued text (defined as marking the phrase boundaries in text) is layered on to readers theatre, an evidence-based instructional format that includes multiple readings over a period of about 5 days as students practice and prepare…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Word Recognition, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Rachel L. Schechter; Anna Robinson; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
State legislators recognized that students in the United States continue to struggle with reading and have begun implementing laws requiring schools to use science of reading-aligned curriculum when teaching reading (Schwartz, 2022). Many students lack the foundational skills to even begin learning how to read in grades K-3 (Kuhfeld et al., 2022).…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
Matthew J. Lembo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated the extent to which five dependent variables were included in the first-grade reading curriculum and whether district size played a role in their inclusion. This study's mixed-methods approach incorporated descriptive statistics, histograms, confidence intervals, and chi-squared analyses to assess curriculum patterns…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Curriculum, School District Size
Danielle Fetters Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated the impact of two different coaching models on student achievement. The data collected was IREAD-3, Indiana's third-grade proficiency assessment tool, and Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) assessment data, a formative assessment measuring student growth over time. The study encompassed 13 elementary schools in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Wohlwend, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2023
A contributing factor to the loss of play in many early childhood classrooms is a sharp separation between literacy learning as serious, even urgent, academic work and play as optional, socially-beneficial-at-best, fun. To recenter play in the academic curriculum, early childhood educators must not only demonstrate how play benefits the existing…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Literacy Education