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Wright, Tanya S.; Cervetti, Gina N.; Wise, Crystal; McClung, Nicola A. – Reading Psychology, 2022
We explored whether knowledge building through read alouds of a conceptually coherent (CC) set of texts might support children's incidental acquisition of vocabulary in these texts and listening comprehension of related texts. Eleven classrooms of first (n = 83) and second grade students (n = 112) were randomly assigned to read alouds of either a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Aloud to Others, Incidental Learning, Grade 2
Jerae Kelly; Kelli Cummings – Reading Psychology, 2024
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a skill of social cognition recently of interest to literacy researchers. This article presents initial findings from a pilot study investigating the use of ToM to teach theme identification and theme statement formation to beginning readers who are less-skilled in comprehension. The authors designed a brief, 1:1 listening…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inferences, Childrens Literature, Reading Instruction
Wintre Foxworth Johnson; Saba Khan Vlach; Maria Leija – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The current climate of K-12 education in the United States has seen a narrowing of literacy instructional practices, exponential amounts of book bans, and contrived hysteria about liberal indoctrination and Critical Race Theory (CRT). Yet, as the world becomes increasingly connected across difference, and as research increasingly demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Culturally Relevant Education, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods
Galelah Alawami – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study provides an in-depth examination of how a second-grade teacher used interactive read-alouds of informational texts to engage her students across four disciplines--science, math, social studies, and language arts. Data included ten semi-structured interviews with a Midwestern public school second-grade teacher as well as nine…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Interaction, Reading Aloud to Others
Morrison, Karen Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study sought to determine the implications of using lesson study as a professional development model to support graphical literacy in second grade students. This mixed methods embedded study gathered information from 3- second grade teachers and 50- second grade students in a rural public school in Central Alabama. The study collected data…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Lesson Plans, Faculty Development, Grade 2
Klvacek, Michelle L.; Monroe, Eula E.; Wilcox, Brad; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M.; Morrison, Timothy G. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
Dyad reading is a modified version of the Neurological Impress Method in which a lead reader and an assisted reader sit side by side and read aloud a shared text in unison. This cooperative peer-assisted reading strategy has been shown to be effective in helping English-proficient and English-learning children. What is unclear is how dyad reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, English Language Learners, Reading Instruction
Kosanovich, Marcia; Lee, Laurie; Foorman, Barbara – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
This is a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade" (ED566956). This guide is organized according to the four recommendations and how-to steps from the WWC practice guide. The activities follow the typical developmental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Family Involvement
Dougherty Stahl, Katherine A. – Reading Teacher, 2014
Inference generation makes a strong, unique contribution to reading comprehension. Young children engage in many of the same inference generation processes as sophisticated readers. This article discusses instructional practices that can be used in prekindergarten through grade two to help children think beyond the words of the text. Suggestions…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Young Children
Monteiro, Vera – Reading Psychology, 2013
In the present project we tested the hypothesis that tutorial situations with peers would benefit children's reading motivation. Participants were from elementary school--80 fourth-graders and 80 second-graders. We used a questionnaire to assess reading motivation. In the tutorial sessions we developed a Paired Reading Program. The children who…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Grade 2, Grade 4
Calo, Kristine M.; Woolard-Ferguson, Taylor; Koitz, Ellen – Reading Teacher, 2013
This article shares an oral reading practice that develops children's fluency skills, with a particular emphasis on performance reading and prosody. The authors share their experiences with Fluency Idol! as a way to engage young children by tapping into pop culture. The practice emphasizes repeated readings, feedback, practice, and…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Popular Culture, Reading Instruction
Bradley, Linda Golson; Donovan, Carol A. – Reading Teacher, 2010
This article discusses the instructional practice of supporting second graders' information book writing with focused read-alouds that include discussions of information book genre elements, features, and organizational structure. The authors present specific examples of instruction and discuss the resulting information book compositions by…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 2, Teaching Methods, Elementary Schools
Prior, Lori Ann; Willson, Angeli; Martinez, Miriam – Reading Teacher, 2012
The literary element of character is critical to literary meaning-making, and in picturebooks images provide information important to understanding characters. This manuscript shares results of an investigation that explored the kinds of pictorial information young children use to gain insights into the characters and provide practical ways…
Descriptors: Literacy, Visual Literacy, Personality, Literary Devices
Pappas, Christine C.; Varelas, Maria; Patton, Sofia Kokkino; Ye, Li; Ortiz, Ibett – Theory Into Practice, 2012
This article shows how various dialogic discourse strategies were used in read-alouds of English science information books in a 2nd-grade bilingual classroom. Using a variety of discursive strategies, Ibett encouraged her Spanish-speaking students to provide explanations and reasoning related to science ideas. Similarly, she used intertextual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Science Instruction
Kindle, Karen J. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2010
Reading aloud to children is a recommended practice in early childhood and primary-grade classrooms that is purported to enhance vocabulary growth. General guidelines can be found in the literature, but practitioners often rely on conventional wisdom and their own instincts to embed vocabulary instruction into their read-alouds. This paper…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Aloud to Others, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
McTigue, Erin M. – Reading Teacher, 2010
Although mental imagery's positive role in reading comprehension is clear, the means of introducing imagery to young readers is comparatively vague. Mental imagery's very nature, being nonverbal, invisible, and often unconscious, results in a mismatch with standard instructional practices. Verbal explanations of nonverbal phenomenon fall short.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Aloud to Others, Teaching Methods, Imagery
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