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Transitioning Text Dependent Analysis Instruction from a Tested Item to a 21st Century Skill: An Ethnographic Case Study of Upper Elementary Teachers
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Danielle N. Murray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students in the United States are struggling to show proficient comprehension in reading, with only 35% of the nation's fourth graders scoring proficient or higher on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2019. Since the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices &…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, 21st Century Skills, Grade 4, Grade 5
Beyond Comprehension Strategy Instruction: What's Next?
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Elleman, Amy M.; Compton, Donald L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: In this article, we respond to Catts and Kamhi's (2017) argument that reading comprehension is not a single ability. Method: We provide a brief review of the impact of strategy instruction, the importance of knowledge in reading comprehension, and possible avenues for future research and practice. Results: We agree with Catts and Kamhi's…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Research
An Examination of Vygotsky's Socio-Cultural Theory in Second Language Acquisition: The Role of Higher Order Thinking Enhancing Techniques and the EFL Learners' Use of Private Speech in the Construction of Reasoning
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Mirzaee, Sepideh; Maftoon, Parviz – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2016
The present study investigates the impact of higher order thinking enhancing techniques as two post-reading strategies on the EFL students' reasoning power as determined by their private speech production. Also, the relationship between the learners' private speech production and their reasoning power is also investigated. In so doing, the study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Logical Thinking
Exploring the Online Reading Comprehension Strategies Used by Sixth-Grade Skilled Readers to Search for and Locate Information on the Internet
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Coiro, Julie; Dobler, Elizabeth – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the nature of reading comprehension processes while reading on the Internet. Eleven sixth-grade students with the highest combination of standardized reading scores, reading report card grades, and Internet reading experiences were selected from a population of 150 sixth graders in three…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Prior Learning, Middle Schools, Internet
Using Classification Lessons To Teach Hispanic Secondary Students Inference.
McInnes, Marguerite M. – 1988
Based on the idea that poor reading skills may be contributing to academic failure among Spanish-speaking high school students and on research suggesting that classification skills may help in reading, a set of lessons focusing on classification was developed for this group. The bilingual lessons use various classification tasks to teach students…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, High School Students