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Kristin M. Roslonski Larsen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This practitioner inquiry dissertation is situated within the context of U.S. education policy that persists in defining literacy as print-based and privileges standardized literacy assessments as the singular measure of what students "know". Decades of literacy research have shown that such orientations to education policy and resulting…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Multilingualism, Student Evaluation, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Rose, Stephanie – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2012
In 2012, 14 states passed legislation geared toward improving 3rd-grade literacy through identification, intervention, and/or retention initiatives. Today, a total of 32 states and the District of Columbia have policies in statute aimed at improving 3rd-grade reading proficiency. The majority of these states require early assessment and…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Grade 3
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Chen, Weiyun; Cone, Theresa P.; Cone, Stephen L. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Interdisciplinary teaching through physical education has been discussed in the physical education literature over the past two decades. However, there is no qualitative study of what interdisciplinary teaching in physical education means to students. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe students' views of and educational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Interviews, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
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Connor, Carol McDonald; Jakobsons, Lara J.; Crowe, Elizabeth C.; Meadows, Jane Granger – Elementary School Journal, 2009
This study explored first-, second-, and third-grade reading instruction and students' (n = 1,586) reading skill growth in Florida Reading First (RF) classrooms (n = 95). The goal of RF is to improve students' literacy outcomes through the use of research-based instruction, assessment, teacher training, and program evaluation. Whereas survey data…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Program Evaluation, Reading Skills
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Hachem, Amira; Nabhani, Mona; Bahous, Rima – Education 3-13, 2008
The study presents the process of differentiated instruction, its implementation, and impact on second graders in a Lebanese school. It analyses how writing instruction has been differentiated through implementing the writing workshop to help students demonstrate improved writing skills. It examines the effects of second graders' participation in…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Workshops, Writing Skills, Grade 2
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Engemann, Alison J.; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2005
Lucie, a Grade Two classroom teacher, and Kate, a university professor, engaged in an action research study that linked a trait-based writing instruction approach with a genre-focused instruction approach. To capture the experience, fieldnote observations, interviews and samples of students' work were collected. Lucie recognized the need to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning
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Romeo, Lynn – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2008
This article presents a comprehensive model of daily, classroom informal writing assessment that is constantly linked to instruction and the characteristics of proficient writers. Methods for promoting teacher, student, and parent collaboration and their roles in dialoguing, conferencing, and reflection are discussed. Strategies for including…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Informal Assessment
James, Amy – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2005
Part of the new Knowledge Essentials series, "First Grade Success" shows parents how to enrich their children's classroom learning and take an active role in their first graders' education by exploring: (1) What their first graders are learning at school and the educational standards to expect in math, language arts, science, and social studies;…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Thinking Skills, Academic Achievement