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Action Research: Learning Sight Words Through the Use of an iPad in Second Grade. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Kelly Williams – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Children learn words at different rates. Some choose to learn words because it is fun, whereas others do not think learning words is fun and therefore struggle or just learn words to read. This Action Research study's purpose was to find out which types of students gained the most words during a 6-week intervention using an iPad sight word…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Reading Instruction
Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context. Routledge Research in Education
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Cumming, Alister, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several, interrelated factors that support the development of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Multilingualism, Adolescents, Learning Processes
Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: 5 Simple-To-Follow Strategies for Principals.
McEwan, Elaine K. – 2001
This book offers middle and high school principals (with or without a background in reading instruction or curriculum) the tools to help teachers and lead their schools to reading excellence. The book presents the current status of student achievement in America, links the importance of reading to learning, clarifies the learning process of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High Schools, Instructional Leadership, Learning Processes
Reading Research: Advances in Theory and Practice. Volume 1.
Waller, T. Gary, Ed.; MacKinnon, G. E., Ed. – 1979
The first of a series providing reviews, syntheses (empirical and rhetorical), and reports of reading research, the chapters in this volume treat the question, "What does a child have to know (or be able to do) in order to learn to read?" The book begins with an in-depth logical analysis in historical perspective of the concept of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Secondary School Reading: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practice.
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Berger, Allen, Ed.; Robinson, H. Alan, Ed. – 1982
Intended to help the secondary school classroom teacher make use of some of the current research related to reading instruction, this book contains reviews of the literature on the various aspects of secondary school reading. Each of the 12 chapters begins with an introduction to set the stage and ends with a conclusion to put the ideas into…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Literacy, Learning Processes, Literature
Reading Research: Advances in Theory and Practice. Volume 4.
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1985
Intended to provide an outlet for systematic and substantive reviews, both empirical and theoretical, and for extended integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on the nature of reading and reading disabilities, with implications for both theory and practice. The first chapter of the book reports on a long-term study of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Teaching Students to Read through Their Individual Learning Styles.
Carbo, Marie; And Others – 1986
Designed to assist parents, classroom teachers, reading specialists, and special educators, this book describes effective reading programs that promote reading success and achievement for children at all reading levels. The 10 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) "Preventing Reading Failure and Increasing Reading Achievement through Learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Learning Processes