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Direct linkCreamer, Shirley – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study describes the relationship between phonemic awareness and the reading achievement of kindergarten students. The purpose of this quantitative, time series, a two-year study was conducted to examine why some kindergarteners are not phonemically aware when leaving kindergarten and entering first grade. This study hypothesizes that…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Statistical Analysis, Phonemic Awareness, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedSu, Yen-Ning; Kao, Chih-Chien; Hsu, Chia-Cheng; Pan, Lu-Chun; Cheng, Shu-Chen; Huang, Yueh-Min – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Some music has been proved effectively to mitigate anxiety, beneficial to reading. However, little was known on its influence of reading behaviors and outcomes. Thanks to the advance of e-book technology, it becomes possible to track reading rate and outcomes in a real-time manner by the underlying mobile devices. This study intends to examine the…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Anxiety, Reading, Electronic Publishing
McGeown, Sarah P.; Medford, Emma – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study examined the skills predicting early reading development when children were taught by a synthetic phonics approach. Eighty five children taught to read by systematic synthetic phonics were assessed on reading and cognitive assessments prior to reading instruction (average age 4 years, 7 months), 6 months later (5 years, 1 month), and 73…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Early Reading, Phonics
Pacheco, Beatriz – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Literacy rates among male adolescents continue to fall below those of female adolescents, and this trend shows no indication of improving (Cheung & Slavin, 2014; Gurian & Stevens, 2007; Weins, 2005; Clark, 2006; Cantrell & Carter, 2009). This study aims to examine this trend by measuring the effects of extended literacy learning…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adolescents, Gender Differences, Literacy Education
Download full textAdlof, Suzanne; Frishkoff, Gwen; Dandy, Jennifer; Perfetti, Charles – Grantee Submission, 2016
Word learning can build the high-quality word representations that support skilled reading and language comprehension. According to the partial knowledge hypothesis, words that are partially known, a.k.a. "frontier words" (Durso & Shore, 1991), may be good targets for instruction precisely because they are already familiar. However,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Adults, Children
Tsesmeli, Styliani N.; Tsirozi, Theologia – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2015
The case-study aims to examine the effectiveness of training of morphological structure on the spelling of compounds by a spelling-disabled primary school student. The experimental design of the intervention was based on the word-pair paradigm and included a pre-test, a training program and a post-test (n = 50 pairs). The Training Program aimed to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Spelling
Li, Hongli; Suen, Hoi K. – Language Testing, 2013
Differential skill functioning (DSF) exists when examinees from different groups have different probabilities of successful performance in a certain subskill underlying the measured construct, given that they have the same ability on the overall construct. Using a DSF approach, this study examined the differences between two native language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Differences, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Hogenes, Michel; van Oers, Bert; Diekstra, René F. W.; Sklad, Marcin – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
The present study aims to contribute to the understanding of the effects of music education, in particular music composition as a classroom activity for fifth- and sixth-graders. The intervention (experimental condition) focused on a three-step-model for music composition, based on the Cultural Historical Activity Theory of education, and has been…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Grade 5, Grade 6
Sytsma, Marcia Ruth – ProQuest LLC, 2014
A cross-age peer tutoring program was implemented in a small rural school in west central Belize, Central America. All students at the school were native Spanish speakers, and all general instruction was conducted in English. The program was devised to supplement existing reading and language arts instruction at all grade levels. Progress of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, English (Second Language)
Moore, Wendy; Hammond, Lorraine; Fetherston, Tony – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
Vocabulary knowledge is an important predictor of literacy and broader academic outcomes, and children's literature is a rich source of sophisticated vocabulary. This study investigated the effect of providing instruction in word meanings as an adjunct to story-book read-aloud sessions in Grade One classrooms. The main intervention programme ran…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Semantics
Alharbi, Majed – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the effects of the online course tools, specifically discussion boards, blogs and wikis, the built-in facilities of Blackboard as computer-mediated communication integrated in e-learning environments on improving integrated reading and writing and on the attitudes of EFL college students towards literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Collaborative Writing
Carlson, Sarah E.; Nelson-Walker, Nancy J.; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Biancarosa, Gina; Turtura, Jessica; Crone, Deanne A.; Baker, Scott K.; Fien, Hank; Cohen, Jason – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
As education policy in the U.S. focuses increasingly on the quality of classroom instruction, there is a growing need to identify valid constructs and develop reliable tools that measure student opportunities to learn academic knowledge and skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the relative contributions of two different classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Reading Programs, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
