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Kotas, Jacqueline; Bridi, Julia; Garrity, Sarah M. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Using data from a 2-year empirical project in an urban school within the United States, this article describes how educators of preschool, transitional-kindergarten and kindergarten (PreK-TK-K) altered perceptions and practices as a result of participating in a purposefully crafted professional learning community using collaborative enquiry.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Urban Schools, Teacher Attitudes
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Gilson, Cindy M.; Little, Catherine A. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2016
Asking questions that invite students to access advanced thinking skills during classroom discourse is a key strategy for challenging and supporting high-ability middle school readers. This critical teaching practice requires careful teacher listening. However, empirical research around teachers' "listening orientations," or how teachers…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Reading Teachers, Listening Skills, Enrichment Activities
Stivers-Blaebaum, Janet E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research has shown that there is a strong link between reading comprehension and vocabulary, yet many children lack the required vocabulary needed to perform adequately on reading comprehension assessments. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the teaching of Larry Bell's 12 Powerful Words vocabulary program in order to raise third, fourth…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Grade 3
Ohle, Kathryn A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to share teachers' perceptions of their and other stakeholders' roles and influence during the implementation of an instructional policy, the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), and its success. The TRI is a professional development (PD) program that uses a diagnostic reading model, a suggested set of reading…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Reading Programs
Feliciani, Meghan Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Educators often use reading programs to address younger students' reading abilities and teachers' perceptions of those reading abilities; however, few researchers have examined teachers' perceptions of the effects of sustained silent reading on middle and high school students. The conceptual framework for this study was based on social learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Teachers
Niedringhaus, Bridgett – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a reading intervention program used with second and third grade students identified as not meeting grade level expectancy. Studies have indicated students who are not reading at grade level by the end of the third grade have an increasingly difficult time achieving at the rate of their…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties
Nagy, Nancy M.; Campenni, C. Estelle; Shaw, Janet N. – 2000
The practice of sustained silent reading (SSR) is based on the belief that motivation, interest, self-selection, modeling, and time spent reading contribute to student reading achievement. A study was designed to ascertain the prevalence of SSR in classrooms in a particular geographic area and the degree to which the program's original goals are…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle Schools, Program Implementation, Reading Achievement