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Differences between high and low level preservice teachers' instructional conversations with elementary school students: A grounded theory study 

Henderson, Shannon (2006-05-15)
This grounded theory study attempted to explain differences observed in preservice teachers’ instructional conversations with elementary school students using an instructional framework and explicit conversational scaffold. ...

The Effect of Risk Level and Group Size on Student Phonemic Awareness Achievement 

Baugh, Nichole (2005-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to determine if small group phonemic awareness intervention results in equal or greater phonemic awareness achievement than one-to-one tutoring dependent on a students risk level for reading ...

The Effectiveness of DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency as a Predictor of Reading Comprehension for High- and Low-Income Students 

Paleologos, Timon (2005-08-15)
The purpose of this two-part, non-experimental study was to examine the predictive nature of reading fluency scores in relation to reading comprehension scores and determine if the associations between these scores were ...

Effects of Modified Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction on African American Boys’ Oral Reading Fluency and Attitudes toward Reading 

Gaston-Thornton, Parichart (2008-08-15)
Reading achievement among boys has been a subject of interest in educational research for several years. Not until the 1990s did the issue of educating boys become nationally and internationally acknowledged as an existing ...

A Life Preserver for the 'Sink or Swim' Years: An Investigation of New Teacher Obstacles and the Impact of a Peer Support Group 

Brandt, Shannon (2005-08-15)
The high number of teachers leaving the profession after only a few years of teaching has created a need for teacher education programs and school systems to address the obstacles new teachers are facing and look at ways ...

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 ...

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 ...