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Carol Judd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the challenges teachers faced in teaching reading comprehension to secondary students within the study school. Reading comprehension is a key skill for academic success, yet many students struggle to understand complex texts in subjects such as history, science, and mathematics. The purpose of this research is to assess how…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
Katrina Ramirez Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study documented an interdisciplinary team of grade 8 teachers' utilization and implementation of research-based reading strategies introduced through collaboration during a Professional Learning Community (PLC). This study also investigated the teachers' perspectives on the implementation of research-based strategies, including the factors…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Grade 8, Evidence Based Practice, Communities of Practice
Joy Oghogho Isa – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reading problems among students in Nigeria prompted the implementation of a literacy across the curriculum initiative in a cluster of schools within a district, where all teachers were required to integrate literacy strategies into their lessons. The problem investigated in this study was that the teachers' instruction of science at Beta Schools…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Science Teachers
Caroline G. Kosho – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High school classroom teachers with English language learners (ELLs) assigned to their classrooms might not be using effective instructional strategies to increase reading comprehension scores of ELLs. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the use of strategies that high school classroom teachers use to teach cognitive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency
Kevin Presnell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This case study describes a professional learning opportunity for educators of adolescents, namely the Literacy for Adolescent Teachers (LAT), at a regional midsize university in Kentucky. The LAT is a year-long experience that enrollees undertake to grow professionally by gaining specific literacy skills. This study focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, State Programs, Case Studies, Content Area Reading
Tim T. Andress – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The literacy instruction that adolescent emergent bilingual (EB) students currently receive is insufficient to improve their writing proficiency (Graham et al., 2021; National Center for Education Statistics, 2012). To promote improvements in EBs' writing, evidence-based practices that are culturally and linguistically responsive must be provided…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy Education, Evidence Based Practice, English
Bergeland, John O. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In an effort to improve an understanding of content area vocabulary instruction and how to support teacher-educators, in this study I sought to determine which vocabulary instructional practices were selected from the corpus and applied in instruction. I examined the knowledge and beliefs held by the participants about vocabulary instruction in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Content Area Reading, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Talbert, Summer K. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Integrating reading instruction and content area curriculum has been suggested as a method of improving students' reading comprehension and access to content knowledge. Less clear are the specific practices that should be used across the curriculum to improve comprehension and build knowledge simultaneously. The two studies in this dissertation…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Feliz, Virginia Araceli – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The study addresses teachers and instructional leaders of English Language Learners (ELLs), one of the fastest growing student populations in the United States. English Language Learners comprise a diverse group of students including native-born Americans who happen to speak a language other than English as their primary language. One of the most…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, At Risk Students, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods
Beerwinkle, Andrea Lynne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The ability to comprehend science texts is not only an academic skill but a life skill. Currently, however, the majority of students across grade levels in the United States are reading below grade level "and" have science achievement below grade level. The text structure strategy, a reading comprehension strategy in which students are…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Rabold, Jennifer C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study investigated the approximations of disciplinary literacy in high school English Language Arts students' writing. To study the development of these disciplinary conventions, the portfolios of written literary analyses were examined from fourteen twelfth-grade students over their last two years in high school. The conceptual framework for…
Descriptors: Language Arts, High School Students, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods
Schmitt, Heather A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Despite increasing expectations for student proficiency in content area reading (e.g., Common Core State Standards), social studies text continues to present unique challenges to students who struggle with reading; for example, textbook readability is often at least two grade levels above the grade for which it is intended (Berkeley et al., 2016;…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Social Studies, Textbooks, Instructional Materials
Nagle, Corey Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, 2017) reported that literacy scores have not significantly improved in over 20 years. These scores have prompted investigations of instruction for improving literacy instruction, such as disciplinary literacy (DL), but research supporting DL implementation is limited (Fisher & Ivey, 2005;…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Lorinda Brusie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examined the preparedness of middle school teachers to teach literacy strategies to middle school students. The study also examined the significance between teacher licensure pathways and their self-efficacy level as it relates to using literacy strategies in content areas. This was a mixed methods study using quantitative data…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Self Efficacy, English Instruction, Language Arts
Rutherford, Erica – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Information text can be utilized to enhance both reading and science instruction in the kindergarten classroom. These books bring abstract concepts to life for young learners, and can serve as the focal point for numerous topics of study. Although many teachers incorporate information books into their teaching, it is important that teachers…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts