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Kelly, Laura Beth – Reading Horizons, 2020
Current standards push for elementary students to have text-based and text-centric discussions of what they read. This study explored what bilingual third-grade students talked about during small-group text-based discussions of informational texts. The author conducted a qualitative analysis of 10 video-recorded discussions, five of books matched…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Group Discussion, Grade 3
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Thomas, Davonna M.; Kim, Jwa K. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2019
This article describes a mixed-methods study that examines the effects of literature circles (peer-led small group discussion of an assigned reading) on the reading achievement of college students taking developmental reading courses. The researcher-developed intervention was comprised of three connected activities (collaborative oral re-tell,…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Reading Achievement, College Students, Remedial Reading
Solis, Michael; Reutebuch, Colleen K.; Falcomata, Terry; Steinle, Paul K.; Miller, Veronica L.; Vaughn, Sharon – Grantee Submission, 2021
This simultaneous replication single-case design study investigated a vocabulary and main idea intervention with an aspect of text choice provided to students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Five middle school students with ASD participated in two instructional groups taught by school-based personnel. Results were initially mixed. These…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Material Selection, Reader Text Relationship
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Moses, Lindsey; Ogden, Meridith; Kelly, Laura Beth – Reading Teacher, 2015
This Teaching Tips describes a yearlong process of facilitating meaningful discussion groups about literature with first-grade students in an urban Title I school. At the beginning of the year, the teacher provided explicit instruction in speaking and listening skills to support students with the social skills needed for thoughtful discussion. She…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Urban Education
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Brown, Sally – Democracy & Education, 2015
Transaction circles weave together elements of guided reading and literature circles in an open conversational structure that supports students as agentive learners. Discourse within these circles utilizing digital informational texts assist in the development of democratic practices even in a time when federal mandates limit curricula and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Aesthetics
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Soter, Anna O.; Wilkinson, Ian A.; Murphy, P. Karen; Rudge, Lucila; Reninger, Kristin; Edwards, Margaret – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The purpose of this study was to validate and extend the findings of an exhaustive literature search in Year 1 and a meta-analysis in Year 2 of a 3-year project in which nine (9) small-group discussion approaches were identified. Having identified parameters of discussion that were, to a greater or lesser extent, present in these nine discussion…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Meta Analysis