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Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Phillips, Beth – Topics in Language Disorders, 2016
Comprehension monitoring has received substantial attention as a reading comprehension strategy. However, comprehension monitoring is not limited to the reading context, but applies to the oral context for children's listening comprehension, which is a critical foundation for reading comprehension. Therefore, a systematic and explicit…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Intervention, Preschool Education, Low Income Students
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Johnson, Lakeisha; Terry, Nicole Patton; Connor, Carol McDonald; Thomas-Tate, Shurita – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The achievement gaps between poor and more affluent students are persistent and chronic, as many students living in poverty are also members of more isolated communities where dialects such as African American English and Southern Vernacular English are often spoken. Non-mainstream dialect use is associated with weaker literacy achievement. The…
Descriptors: Dialects, Dialect Studies, Nonstandard Dialects, Black Dialects