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Reading engagement is an essential component of children's reading achievement. This three-chapter dissertation considers a new approach to conceptualizing reading engagement through the lens of children's immersion, or absorption, in a text. Chapter 1 examines the theoretical underpinnings of story world absorption, sometimes known as…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Reader Text Relationship, Reader Response, Story Reading
The Impact of Drama Pedagogy on Student Achievement, Attitude, and Empathy: An Action Research Study
Gascon, Deborah J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This action research study evaluated a problem of practice which emerged from the apathy and passive responses of students to reading classic literature in the high school English classroom. Teachers instructed while students received information with little investment on their part. The purpose of this study was to determine how to help students…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Empathy
Agee, Nicole S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Cultural sensitivity and responsiveness are being advocated in reading assessments to reduce the impact of community speech patterns (CSP) on the accuracy of miscue analysis. This study, motivated by a high incidence of retention in 1st grade in a local school district, investigated whether CSP among students affected reading outcomes and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Speech Habits, Cultural Awareness, Reading Tests
Fifth-Grade Readers' Use of Metacognitive Strategies to Comprehend Social Studies Nonnarrative Texts
Cesa, Caron Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Metacognitive strategies are needed for readers to be successful in comprehending nonnarrative social studies texts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the metacognitive strategies used by proficient readers (students reading above-grade-level) and struggling (students reading below-grade-level) readers comprehending social studies…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Kay, Victoria – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Over the last decade there has been an increased focus on high-stakes standardized tests in reading and math. Social studies has been devalued in the classroom as many teachers and administrators focus their attention on reading and math instruction to avoid the punitive consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act. (2001). Based on this…
Descriptors: Social Studies, High Stakes Tests, Literacy Education, History Instruction
Su, Chia-chun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Reading comprehension plays a key role in academic success in today's classrooms. Literature Circles (LCs), a learner-centered collaborative reading activity, brings together the ideas of cooperative learning, independent reading, and reader response theory to enhance students' reading comprehension as well as their motivation toward learning…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Reading Comprehension, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes
