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Domke, Lisa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Given the multilingual population of the United States, dual-language books (DLBs), or books with the complete text written in two languages, are often recommended for teachers to use in their classrooms to validate students' language and culture, facilitate language learning, and support (bi)literacy development. These recommendations are based…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Books, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students
Salehomoum, Maryam – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Studies of proficient readers have shown that the use of certain strategies (e.g., relating personal background knowledge to text, attending to headings and images, and summarizing) is important for comprehension of challenging texts (Afflerbach, Pearson, & Paris, 2017; Duke et al., 2011; Goldman et al., 2016; Shanahan, Shanahan, &…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness
Silvestri, Julia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study is a mixed methods analysis of reading processes and language experiences of deaf and hearing readers. The sample includes four groups each with fifteen adults--identified as: deaf/high-achieving readers, deaf/struggling/non-academic readers, hearing/high-achieving readers, and hearing/non-academic readers. The purpose of this study is…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Adults, Deafness, Differences
Rock, Mary Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this case study was to understand how students use reading strategies to help them comprehend informational text. Eighteen adolescent, developing readers who participated in a Reading Edge intervention at a suburban junior high school in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania answered interview questions, and 14 students met the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Junior High School Students
Schira Hagerman, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation study presents an instructional intervention called LINKS: Learning to Integrate InterNet Knowledge Strategically. It reports evidence of the intervention's impact on two variables: (a) ninth graders' use of ten online reading and integration strategies while engaged in dyadic online inquiry on science topics in school, and (b)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Strategies, Pretests Posttests, Reading Comprehension
Zarrabi, Shayesteh – ProQuest LLC, 2016
International students, a growing population in US universities, need to possess excellent reading skills in order to succeed. American universities also benefit from admitting students who do not require remedial English classes. Reading online has become an integrated part of college education, which requires students to have additional skills.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Statistical Analysis, Online Surveys
Cho, Byeong-Young – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The goal of this study was to examine types and patterns of reading strategies that proficient adolescent readers used while reading on the Internet. Informed by research related to reading comprehension, intertextuality, and new literacies, I drew upon the model of "Constructively Responsive Reading" that had evolved from print reading to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Internet, Critical Reading, Reading Strategies
Willson, Angeli Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study examines children's comprehension of conventional, wordless, and postmodern picturebooks. The research question was: How do children construct meaning of conventional, wordless, and postmodern picturebooks? More specific questions were: 1) What are the reading strategies that children use as they make sense of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Picture Books, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Gutkind, Rebeka Chaia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed method study investigated the schema strategy uses of fourth-grade boys with reading challenges; specifically, their ability to understand text based on two components within schema theory: tuning and restructuring. Based on the reading comprehension scores from the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (Form 2010), four comparison groups were…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Wigent, Catherine Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
High school students are challenged to meet higher standards in order to ensure that they are prepared to face the literacy demands of our twenty-first century society (Beaufort, 2009; A. S. Erickson, Kleinhammer-Tramill, & Thurlow, 2007; Vernon, Baytops, McMahon, Padden, & Walther-Thomas, 2003). This study examined both above average high school…
Descriptors: High Schools, Protocol Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Reading Strategies
Chapman, Suzanne Coatoam – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Recent scholarship on secondary reading calls for a shift from teaching generic literacy strategies to teaching discipline-specific language and literacy practices (Fang & Schleppegrell, 2008; Moje, 2008; Shanahan & Shanahan, 2012). This call for disciplinary literacy instruction (DLI) reflects the growing recognition that literacy…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes
Acosta Caballero, Karen Anelice – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Reading comprehension of school-aged students is an important topic of research; however, research on the reading comprehension of adult foreign/second language learners whose first language is English is limited, especially studies investigating the reading comprehension strategies that readers of different proficiency levels use when they…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Language Proficiency, Spanish
Manderville, Tonya Butler – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At one high school, the goal for nonproficient reading students was to score at or above the 50th percentile to meet adequate yearly progress objectives. In 2010, the performance levels of nonproficient reading students tested with the state reading test in Grades 9 and 10 declined from the 47th to the 46th percentile. The purpose of this research…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, High School Students
Shinas, Valerie Harlow – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Online texts present unique challenges to readers, requiring them to interact with texts in ways that differ from their interactions with static, print texts (Kress, 2003; 2010; McKenna, 2003; Reinking, 1998). Due to the multimodal, multilayered, and nonlinear nature of online texts, readers may also employ strategies when they read online,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Electronic Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Jakubik, Tara Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2014
State tests, which assess reading comprehension, ask students to make inferences and connections beyond the text. The problem of practice in which this study is situated is that students are having difficulty making meaningful connections and developing inferences in relation to the material that is read aloud together in class or assigned for…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Common Core State Standards, Reading Tests
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