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What REALLY Works: Optimizing Classroom Discussions to Promote Comprehension and Critical-Analytic Thinking
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Murphy, P. Karen; Firetto, Carla M.; Wei, Liwei; Li, Mengyi; Croninger, Rachel M. V. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Many American students struggle to perform even basic comprehension of text, such as locating information, determining the main idea, or supporting details of a story. Even more students are inadequately prepared to complete more complex tasks, such as critically or analytically interpreting information in text or making reasoned decisions from…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Group Discussion, Teaching Methods
Preventing Summer Learning Loss: Results of a Summer Literacy Program for Students from Low-SES Homes
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Bowers, Lisa M.; Schwarz, Ilsa – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Among the academic challenges faced by students from low-socioeconomic status (SES) homes is the loss of academic skills during the summer months. A total of 22 elementary students from low-SES homes participated in a summer program designed to improve oral and written narrative skills. We gathered oral and written narrative samples at the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, Literacy Education, Reading Programs
Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction and Assessment, Pre-K-6
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Hougen, Martha C., Ed.; Smartt, Susan M., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
For future literacy teachers just beginning their professional education, nothing's more important than the first core text that builds their foundation for classroom success. That's why every preservice teacher should start with this introductory reading textbook, ideal for teaching fundamental literacy skills to students in pre-K-Grade 6. Based…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Beginning Reading, Academic Standards
Oral and Written Language Development of Children Adopted from China
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Scott, Kathleen A.; Roberts, Jenny A.; Krakow, Rena – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: The sharp increase in the number of international adoptions in the United States has prompted a heightened interest in the language development of internationally adopted children. Although recent studies have investigated the early language development of adoptees, little is known about the school-age language and literacy skills of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Written Language, Foreign Countries
An Investigation of Variables of Instruction and Their Relation to Rate of English Language Learning.
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Crandall, Kathleen, Eilers; Albertini, John A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
An investigation of the effect of nine instructional variables on rate of English language learning among 264 new students at National Technical Institute for the Deaf showed that the variables concerning teaching intensity and presentation design used by teachers for delivering English language lessons have a significant effect on rate of written…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Educational Research, English Instruction
From Practice to Performance: A Manual of Teacher Training Workshop Activities. Volume 2.
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Murphy, Richard A. – 1997
The manual is designed to be used in workshops to train English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers and contains a series of exercises for teaching reading comprehension, writing, and testing. An introductory section contains notes to workshop participants and facilitators. The exercises are then presented in three sections: reading comprehension;…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education