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Download full textMullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
Conducted every five years, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assesses international trends in the reading comprehension of young students in their fourth year of schooling--an important transition point in children's development as readers. PIRLS was designed to complement the International Association for the Evaluation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, International Assessment
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Direct linkAukerman, Maren; Brown, Rachel; Mokhtari, Kouider; Valencia, Sheila; Palincsar, Annemarie – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2015
The essays below were prepared following the LRA session organized by Janice Almasi entitled, "Examining the relative contributions of content knowledge and strategic processing to comprehension." What unites these essays are the personal and historical stances that each writer has taken; in addition, the essays are rich with…
Descriptors: Essays, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Theories
Stacki, Sandra L., Ed.; Caskey, Micki M., Ed.; Mertens, Steven B., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020
The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving. They experience more complicated lives as influences of the broader society including popular media and technology, immigration and cultural diversity, amplified political divisiveness, and bullying effect their daily lives both in and out of school.…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, Middle School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Easterbrooks, Susan R., Ed.; Dostal, Hannah M., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2020
"The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Literacy" brings together state-of-the-art research on literacy learning among deaf and hard of hearing learners (DHH). With contributions from experts in the field, this volume covers topics such as the importance of language and cognition, phonological or orthographic awareness, morphosyntactic…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Literacy, Brain
Taylor, Barbara M., Ed.; Graves, Michael F., Ed.; van den Broek, Paul, Ed. – 2000
Reading comprehension is of great concern to many Americans, as evidenced by the mandate in most states today for graduation standards in reading and for assessments aligned to those standards. This book focuses on what has been learned from research about fostering reading comprehension in the middle grades, providing a broad overview of current…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Comprehension
Collins, Norma; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on the role of metacognition in reading to learn is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the topic; the…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Collins, Norma; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on reading in the content areas is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the topic; the full text of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Critical Reading, Distance Education
Irwin, Judith W., Ed. – 1986
Concerned with improving student comprehension of text, this book focuses particularly on teaching students how sentences tie together. Articles in the three sections are grouped as follows: Part 1, What Is Cohesion Comprehension? contains "Cohesion, Coherence, and Comprehension" (Alden J. Moe and Judith W. Irwin); "Identifying…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension
Goodman, Yetta M.; Wilde, Sandra, Ed. – 1996
The 23 articles chosen for this anthology of Yetta M. Goodman's writings were chosen based on historical importance, centrality to her body of work, availability, and/or ongoing relevance to teachers. The articles in the anthology are grouped to reflect major themes (culture and community; miscue analysis, reading strategies, and comprehension;…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Experience Approach
McNamara, Danielle S., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
First published in 2007. The focus of this book is on the cognitive processes involved in comprehension, and moreover, on techniques that help readers improve their ability to comprehend text and it is also on reading comprehension strategies. Indeed, the use of effective reading comprehension strategies is perhaps the most important means to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes
Dombey, Henrietta; Moustafa, Margaret – 1998
Intended for teachers in primary education, this book draws together the most helpful contemporary thinking and research evidence about the learning and teaching of reading, especially in relation to graphophonics, and shows how these findings can be translated into effective classroom practices. The book summarizes evidence on how children learn…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement
Muth, K. Denise, Ed. – 1989
Reflecting the concerns of researchers and practitioners about children's text comprehension, this book defines and provides examples of narrative and expository text and describes research-based strategies for helping children comprehend these two types of text. The book contains the following chapters: (1) "Research on Stories: Implications…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Models, Narration
Guthrie, John T., Ed.; Wigfield, Allan, Ed.; Perencevich, Kathleen C., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2004
Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing how content knowledge, reading strategies, and motivational support all merge in successful reading instruction. A theoretical perspective (engagement in reading) frames the book and provides a…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation
Swan, Desmond, Ed. – 1982
The articles included in this publication, while dealing with several aspects of reading, all share a common concern for the better understanding and improved teaching of reading. Articles include the following titles: "Reading in the Secondary School--Taught or Caught?""Developing Reading Skills in the Post-infant Years,""A Remedial Programme…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading Comprehension
Danks, Joseph H. – 1982
The readings in this collection were prepared to accompany a report of a series of experiments conducted to determine what information readers, both skilled adults and children beginning to read, use when they read to understand a story. Titles of the readings are are (1) "Oral Reading: Does It Reflect Decoding or Comprehension?" (2)…
Descriptors: Adults, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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