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Ardhian, Trio; Ummah, Inayatul; Anafiah, Siti; Rachmadtullah, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This study aims to determine the effect of reading and critical thinking techniques on students' reading comprehension skills. This study uses quantitative research methods with experimental methods with treatment with a 2 x 2 level design with 40 samples. The data used analysis variance and continued with Tukey and Least Square Differences (LSD)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Critical Thinking, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
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Gambrell, Linda B.; Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Calvert, Leah; Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Igo, Brent – Elementary School Journal, 2011
In this exploratory study, reading, writing, and discussion were examined within the context of a pen pal intervention focusing on authentic literacy tasks. The study employed a mixed-method design with a triangulation-convergence model to explore the relationship between authentic literacy tasks and the literacy motivation of elementary students…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Letters (Correspondence)
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Reznitskaya, Alina; Anderson, Richard C.; Kuo, Li-Jen – Elementary School Journal, 2007
This study systematically analyzed social and cognitive processes that underlie the development of argumentative knowledge. Group discussions of controversial issues and explicit instruction in argumentation were expected to help students acquire a sense of the overall structure of an argument, or an argument schema. In a quasi-experiment, 128…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Grade 4, Grade 5, Writing (Composition)
Todd, Rebecca B.; Tracey, Diane H. – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate how reciprocal teaching affected vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in four at-risk students in a fourth grade inclusion classroom. A single subject research study method was used to measure the baseline of each student. Subsequently, students were assessed daily after receiving two…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, High Risk Students, Grade 4, Vocabulary Development