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Baker, Doris Luft; Santoro, Lana; Biancarosa, Gina; Baker, Scott K.; Fien, Hank; Otterstedt, Janet – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We examine the effects of a read aloud replication intervention designed to improve the vocabulary, comprehension, and expository and narrative language outcomes of first grade students. Thirty-nine first-grade classrooms from 12 schools were randomly assigned to a treatment (n=19) or comparison condition (n=20). Teachers in the treatment…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development
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Neuman, Susan B.; Wong, Kevin M.; Kaefer, Tanya – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of digital and non-digital storybooks on low-income preschoolers' oral language comprehension. Employing a within-subject design on 38 four-year-olds from a Head Start program, we compared the effect of medium on preschoolers' target words and comprehension of stories. Four digital…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Statistical Analysis, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Reed, Deborah K.; Swanson, Elizabeth; Petscher, Yaacov; Vaughn, Sharon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Teacher read-alouds (TRA) are common in middle and high school content area classes. Because the practice of reading the textbook out loud to students is often used out of concern about students' ability to understand and learn from text when reading silently (SR), this randomized controlled trial was designed to experimentally manipulate text…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, High School Students, Reading Aloud to Others, United States History