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Making Students’ Writing Bloom: The Effect of Scaffolding Oral Inquiry Using Bloom’s Taxonomy on Writing in Response to Reading and Reading Comprehension of Fifth Graders 

Stull, Brooke (2007-05-15)
This pretest-posttest control group study attempted to investigate the effects of using Bloom’s Taxonomy as an oral-questioning scaffold to improve writing in response to reading and reading comprehension by encouraging ...

Moving High School Juniors Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay Through Teacher-Modeling 

Burks, Brooke (2010-12-01)
The goal of this study was to assess the differences in high school juniors’ overall essay writing scores when given a method of instruction (coping model, mastery model, and neither). After reading two articles that ...

Prosody: A Taught Means to an End or an End Result? 

Veal, Margo (2011-09-30)
This study investigates the effectiveness of teaching prosody in a readers’ theatre format. Prosody is traditionally defined as an end result that fluent readers inadvertently possess. In that case, struggling readers ...

Relationship Between Third Grade Teachers’ and Students’ Reports on Frequencies of Interactivity During Reading Instruction 

Wortz, Judith (2010-11-11)
According to many educators “formal education is essentially a social process” (Weinstein, 1991, p. 295) that is most effective when there is a two-way interaction that results in discourse among and between teachers and ...

A Study of the Use of Wordmapping in Ninth-Grade Remedial English Classes 

Steinen, Nancy (2007-12-15)
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using wordmapping with struggling learners between the ages of 13 and 15. An experimental group (the wordmapping group) and a treated control group (the vocabulary ...

A Survey of How English Language Arts Teachers Address Synthesis Writing in Classroom Instruction 

Mayhan, Brett (2014-05-05)
The use of information from source materials in service of an argument or idea original to a writer is, according to the scholarly literature, one of the most complex applications of reading and writing. It is also, according ...

Transcript Analysis and Teacher Study Group: Improving Comprehension Instruction 

Buskist, Connie (2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers’ participation in a teacher study group and transcript analysis would have an effect on the reading comprehension scores of their students. The 6 teacher participants ...