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Aline M. Stomfay‐Stitz 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2013,34(4):297-298
While it is clear that reading is critical to children's success throughout schooling and reading instruction research has dramatically increased over the past 2 decades, few early childhood providers have the necessary knowledge, skills and/or confidence to effectively implement evidence-based, emergent literacy strategies in their settings. This article explores the impact of the Early Learning Opportunities (ELO) initiative that provided funding to train early childhood providers to utilize the HeadsUp! Reading (HUR) curriculum in their settings. Noteworthy in this initiative was the inclusion of a coaching component designed to increase participants' ability to generalize HUR instructional practices into their classroom. Also important here was the opportunity to evaluate teaching outcomes. Results from this study indicate that all participants benefited from their involvement in the professional development activities, and that those who received coaching had an advantage with respect to growth in knowledge, skills, and confidence in implementing the new strategies into their classrooms. Implications for professional development activities suggest that coaching efforts to support implementation of newly acquired skills in the classroom may improve teacher performance. 相似文献
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《Learning disabilities research & practice》2017,32(4):270-283
This study explored the extent to which kindergarten and first grade teachers provided individualized reading instruction to struggling readers during a unique one‐on‐one reading instruction task. Three outcomes of teachers’ instructional strategies were captured: code‐focused strategies, meaning‐focused strategies, and level of challenge. Child skills in decoding and vocabulary/oral language as well as teacher qualifications of education, experience, and knowledge of reading were examined in relation to the three instructional strategies. Multilevel analyses showed relationships between child skills and reading instructional strategies, with teachers generally using code‐focused and meaning‐focused strategies, as well as an appropriate level of challenge, with children who struggled less with early reading. Although teacher education was not associated with any of the reading instructional strategies, teacher experience and knowledge of reading was associated with meaning‐based instruction and the level of challenge provided to struggling readers. 相似文献
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Bogaerds-Hazenberg Suzanne T. M. Evers-Vermeul Jacqueline van den Bergh Huub 《Reading and writing》2022,35(7):1497-1523
In the Netherlands, the quality of the reading curriculum is currently under debate because of disappointing results on national and international assessments of students’ reading skills and motivation. In a mixed-method study, we analyzed the content of Dutch textbooks for reading comprehension instruction (i.e., the implemented curriculum) and teachers’ evaluation and use of these books (i.e., the enacted curriculum). A materials analysis of reading comprehension lessons (N?=?80) in eight textbooks for grades 4 and 5 was complemented with semi-structured teacher interviews (N?=?29) and lesson observations (N?=?11), with a focus on the quality of reading strategy and text structure instruction in the curriculum. Main findings are (1) a lack of alignment between lesson goals, theory, and assignments, (2) a strong focus on practicing strategies, (3) limited declarative knowledge about strategies and text structure, (4) little opportunities for self-regulated strategy application. The teachers that were interviewed mention similar problems, but still hardly deviate from the textbook’s content and pedagogical guidelines. We make recommendations to improve the quality of the curriculum.
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Dr. John F. Feldhusen Kevin Hynes William B. Richardson 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(5):224-226
Middle and Secondary teachers often find it difficult to help their students read textbooks and other instructional materials. In order to ensure they read the text, teachers may rely on “round robin reading” and other ineffective strategies. In this article, the authors explain why this strategy hinders comprehension, fluency and development of independent reading skills and provide alternative, research-based reading instructional strategies for adolescents. 相似文献
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Catherine Bitter Paul Gubbins Miguel Socias 《Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk》2013,18(1):17-44
A core assumption of the San Diego City Schools (SDCS) reform effort was that improved instructional practices, aligned with a balanced literacy approach, would be effective in improving student outcomes. This article explores this hypothesis by presenting findings from an analysis of classroom instruction data collected in 101 classrooms in 9 high-poverty elementary schools. Data were collected using a literacy observation tool adapted from prior research. The study found a prevalent focus on reading comprehension instruction and on students' active engagement in making meaning from text. Teachers' use of higher-level questions and discussion about text were substantially higher than that found by a prior study using the same instrument in similar classrooms elsewhere. Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyses of instruction and student outcome data indicate that teacher practices related to the higher-level meaning of text, writing instruction, and strategies for accountable talk were associated with growth in students' reading comprehension. 相似文献
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Kausalai Kay Wijekumar Bonnie J. F. Meyer Puiwa Lei 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2012,60(6):987-1013
Reading comprehension is a challenge for K-12 learners and adults. Nonfiction texts, such as expository texts that inform and explain, are particularly challenging and vital for students?? understanding because of their frequent use in formal schooling (e.g., textbooks) as well as everyday life (e.g., newspapers, magazines, and medical information). The structure strategy is explicit instruction about how to strategically use knowledge about text structures for encoding and retrieval of information from nonfiction and has consistently shown significant improvements in reading comprehension. We present the delivery of the structure strategy using a web-based intelligent tutoring system (ITSS) that has the potential to offer consistent modeling, practice tasks, assessment, and feedback to the learner. Finally, we report on statistically significant findings from a large scale randomized controlled efficacy trial with rural and suburban 4th-grade students using ITSS. 相似文献
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Gerard Westhoff 《欧洲师范教育杂志》1989,12(2):121-130
This article shows that some rather common foreign‐language‐teaching reading practices are questionable. Very often, the emphasis is on the content of the text used in the instruction, and only rarely on developing reading skills. Questioning, one of the most frequently observed teaching strategies, hardly contributes to better reading achievement. Neither does teaching the content or explaining words. Explanations for this are proposed to be found in educational tradition, teacher values, teacher needs, desired teaching comfort and the influence of the testing format as used in examinations. In fact, teaching reading is to a large extent no more than sustained comprehension assessment. Some alternative types of exercises, materials and teacher activities, are presented, based on an analysis of crucial characteristics of the reading process and on some clues from learning theory. 相似文献
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Improving the comprehension of disabled readers 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Joanna P. Williams 《Annals of dyslexia》1998,48(1):213-238
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often have difficulty comprehending what they read. Although reading comprehension
problems frequently are associated with inadequate word recognition, students also have difficulties related to comprehension
itself—a passive approach to the reading task, insensitivity to text structure, and poor metacognitive skills. The reading
and language arts curricula that have emerged from today’s constructivist paradigm can pose problems for these students. Whereas
the new curricula emphasize personal interpretations of text and relatively unstructured teaching strategies, students with
LD do well with explicit, highly structured instruction. This paper introduces an instructional program designed to teach
students with serious learning disabilities how to identify a story theme, and how to relate it to their own real-life experiences.
The program focused on understanding a text as a whole, and integrating text meaning with concepts and experiences that are
personally meaningful, goals shared by a constructivist approach. At the same time, the program incorporates the explicit,
structured instruction that these students also need. A study to evaluate the program’s effectiveness is described, as are
current efforts to refine the program to promote transfer of comprehension strategies. 相似文献
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Jennifer Rennie 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(2):221-238
This article reports on a study that investigated a professional development initiative in Australia to address a decline
in reading comprehension scores in the middle and upper years of Primary school. It describes the professional learning journey
of a middle primary teacher and his literacy coach over a period of 12 months as they worked to improve the teacher’s knowledge
and skills to explicitly teach reading comprehension. A series of classroom observations and interviews at the beginning,
middle and end of the school year were analysed for the kinds of reading skills taught and the nature of the instruction.
The data suggest that there were significant changes in the teacher’s pedagogical repertoires and practices and an observed
improvement in the student’s understandings of different comprehension knowledge, skills and strategies. 相似文献
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Linda Shidler 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2009,36(5):453-460
Coaching for increased teacher efficacy (both instructional and self) has been an essential component to various educational
reforms such as No Child Left Behind; Reading First projects and Early Reading First Projects. Those seeking to improve teacher
performance leading to enhanced student outcomes on various state assessments have also incorporated coaching into the methodology.
The purpose of this study was to look at the linkage between hours spent coaching teachers in the classroom for efficacy in
content instruction and child achievements/outcomes. A significant correlation was seen in year one between the time coaches
spent in the classroom and students’ alphabet recognition scores. The coaching model for year one was one that focused coaching
for instructional efficacy in specific content and teaching methods and saw the coaches directly facilitate and support theory
to practice. In year two and three, no significant correlation was found. Year two and three used a coaching model which was
less specific in focus and increased time spent on site with teachers. The implications for coaching practice includes balancing
time between four components to effective coaching; (1) instructing for specific content, (2) modeling techniques and instructional
practices, (3) observing teacher practices and (4) consulting for reflection. 相似文献
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In science classes, teachers must consider the need for explicit, systematic reading instruction for students with learning disabilities (LD) while navigating the constructivist and activity‐oriented methods typically employed in science instruction. The complexity of scientific information conveyed through print may make reading science texts the greatest challenge that students with LD encounter in school. Fortunately, researchers have established that, by fostering students’ prior knowledge, providing text enhancements, and teaching reading comprehension strategies, students’ understanding of science text is improved. Effective instructional approaches and strategies for reading are reviewed and implications for teaching students with LD noted. 相似文献
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Allan Wigfield John T. Guthrie Kathleen C. Perencevich Ana Taboada Susan Lutz Klauda Angela McRae Pedro Barbosa 《Psychology in the schools》2008,45(5):432-445
The engagement model of reading development suggests that instruction improves students' reading comprehension to the extent that it increases students' engagement processes in reading. We compared how Concept‐Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) (support for cognitive and motivational processes in reading), strategy instruction (support for cognitive strategies in reading), and traditional instruction in fourth‐grade classrooms differentially influenced students' reading comprehension, strategy use, and engagement in reading. Students experiencing CORI were significantly higher than both comparison groups on reading comprehension, reading strategies, and reading engagement. When students' level of reading engagement was statistically controlled, the differences between the treatment groups were not significant. We infer that the level of students' reading engagement during classroom work mediated the instructional effects on reading outcomes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 相似文献
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《Exceptionality》2013,21(1):25-38
This article begins with the suggestion that comprehension-related activities need not wait until children are fluently decoding but may be used during a phase that we term comprehension acquisition. We turn our attention to the features of the interactive information book read-aloud, an instructional approach we see as supporting both nonreaders and nonfluent readers prior to the introduction of instruction in cognitive and comprehension strategies. Following our presentation of the 4 key features of this approach-interaction, information books, teacher awareness of text features, and time for in-depth readings-we examine the ways in which these read-alouds relate to what Ellis and Wortham (1999) termed a watering up of curriculum for students with special needs. 相似文献
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Kausalai Wijekumar Bonnie J. F. Meyer Puiwa Lei Anita C. Hernandez Diane L. August 《Reading and writing》2018,31(9):1969-1996
Reading and comprehending content area texts is important for academic and professional success as well as life skills necessary to maintain good health and quality lifestyle. Spanish speaking English language learners have shown poor performance on high-stakes assessments in reading comprehension. The number of Spanish speaking English learners (ELs) in our schools continues to increase at a fast pace, and therefore it is imperative that we address their reading comprehension needs swiftly and effectively. The text structure strategy has shown positive results on comprehension outcomes in many research studies with students at Grades 2, 4, 5, and 7. This study is the first implementation of instruction about the text structure strategy expressly designed to accommodate the linguistic and comprehension needs of Spanish speaking ELs in Grades 4 and 5. Strategy instruction on the web for English learners (SWELL) was designed to deliver instruction about the text structure strategy to Spanish speaker English learners. A randomized controlled study with pre and post-tests was conducted with 14 classrooms at fourth-grade and 17 classrooms at fifth-grade in high poverty schools where over 85% of students were Spanish speaking bilinguals or ELs. Analysis of data using multi-level models show moderate to large-effects favoring the students in the SWELL classrooms over the business as usual control classrooms on important measures such as a standardized reading comprehension test and main idea and cloze tasks. This research has practical implications for the use of web-based tools to provide high-quality and supportive instruction to improve Spanish speaking ELs reading comprehension skills. 相似文献
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Alexis Patterson Diego Roman Michelle Friend Jonathan Osborne Brian Donovan 《International Journal of Science Education》2018,40(3):291-307
Reading is fundamental to science and not an adjunct to its practice. In other words, understanding the meaning of the various forms of written discourse employed in the creation, discussion, and communication of scientific knowledge is inherent to how science works. The language used in science, however, sets up a barrier, that in order to be overcome requires all students to have a clear understanding of the features of the multimodal informational texts employed in science and the strategies they can use to decode the scientific concepts communicated in informational texts. We argue that all teachers of science must develop a functional understanding of reading comprehension as part of their professional knowledge and skill. After describing our rationale for including knowledge about reading as a professional knowledge base every teacher of science should have, we outline the knowledge about language teachers must develop, the knowledge about the challenges that reading comprehension of science texts poses for students, and the knowledge about instructional strategies science teachers should know to support their students’ reading comprehension of science texts. Implications regarding the essential role that knowledge about reading should play in the preparation of science teachers are also discussed here. 相似文献
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Wolfgang Lenhard Herbert Baier Darius Endlich Wolfgang Schneider Joachim Hoffmann 《Journal of Research in Reading》2013,36(2):223-240
There are many established reading strategy training programmes, which explicitly teach strategic and meta‐cognitive knowledge to improve reading comprehension. Although instruction in strategy knowledge leads to improvements in meta‐cognitive skills, the effects do not always transfer to reading comprehension. Therefore, to investigate preconditions for knowledge transfer, two different strategy training programmes were implemented in nine classes of Grade 6 students (N = 148) over the course of one school year. One programme involved teacher‐directed instruction of declarative meta‐cognitive knowledge (Reading Detectives; Rühl & Souvignier, 2006). The other aimed at improving executive meta‐cognition by guided practice: students worked with a computer program based on latent semantic analysis (LSA) (conText) and received immediate feedback on written summaries. Although both groups improved their strategy knowledge to the same extent, the conText group showed a greater improvement in reading comprehension. These fndings suggest that guided practice, which is characterised by intensive practice and individualised corrective feedback, is superior to explicitly teaching strategy knowledge. 相似文献
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This study was conducted in the province of Québec, Canada, among French-speaking Grade 6 students (n?=?175) in the context of a school curriculum that does not clearly address text structure and main idea instruction. It aims to understand whether these students can identify informative text structures and main ideas in isolated paragraphs, comprehend main ideas and text structure in an informative text, and write a short structured informative text. It also describes relationships between these knowledge and skills coming from different reading and writing tasks. Three assessments relative to informative text structures were administered: a multiple-choice test on text structure knowledge and identification of main ideas, a reading comprehension test, and a short writing task. Results revealed that students performed better in the multiple-choice assessment compared to other assessments. Correlations between variables stemming from the three assessments were significant but their effect sizes were low to moderate. A hypothesized model was investigated via a path analysis suggesting that structure knowledge and main idea identification influence reading comprehension, which then influence writing. 相似文献
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This study investigated the extent to which teacher professional development led to changes in science instruction in K-2
classrooms in rural school districts. The research specifically examined changes in (a) teachers’ content knowledge in science;
(b) teachers’ self-efficacy related to teaching science; (c) classroom instructional time allotted to science; and (d) instructional
strategies used in science. The study also investigated contextual factors contributing to or hindering changes in science
instruction. Data sources included a teacher survey, a self-efficacy assessment, content knowledge tests, interviews, and
classroom observations. After one year in the program, teachers showed increased content knowledge and self-efficacy in teaching
science; they spent more instructional time on science and began using different instructional strategies. Key contextual
factors included curricular demands, resources, administrative support, and support from other teachers. 相似文献
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Heather E. Quick Deborah J. Holtzman Kassandra R. Chaney 《Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk》2013,18(1):45-71
As with many districtwide reform efforts, the San Diego reform sought to improve classroom instruction by focusing on building the capacity of teachers. This article examines practices of teacher professional development in the district and their impact on literacy instruction. Through examination of the literature on effective professional development, school staff's conceptions of what makes professional development effective, and detailed data on professional development experiences from 100 elementary teachers, we explore the extent to which characteristics of effective professional learning align with what is actually taking place in schools. We also examine relationships between professional development characteristics and teachers' use of instructional practices that have been shown to predict student growth in reading comprehension. We find that professional development characterized by an emphasis on content and curriculum and that incorporates coaching is related to a higher frequency of this type of instruction. 相似文献