Browsing by Subject "reading"
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(2010-10-12)Theories of reading have seldom been examined across orthographies. In the present study, Dual Coding Theory (DCT), a general theory of cognition applied to literacy, was applied to Chinese sentences to investigate the ...
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(2010-07-14)The Behavior Education Program was implemented with four students at a large sub-urban elementary school in central Texas. The elementary school has a diverse population of 750 students and was implementing Tier 1 interventions ...
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(2009-05-15)This investigation examined the extent to which teacher implemented systematic, explicit instruction affected the literacy achievement of kindergarten and first grade students. Two cohorts of students in a southwestern ...
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(2013-04-05)The present study puts forward two models which examine the relationship between at home at school variables of (1) engagement in shared and independent reading and (2) access to print with reading achievement. Participants ...
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(2015-08-07)English language learners, one of the fastest growing groups of students in public schools, continue to score lower in reading achievement when compared to non-English language learners. Struggling readers who do not receive ...
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(2010-01-15)Readers often encounter the need to explore a document only for a specific point of interest. We call the phenomena of approaching a narrative not for its entirety, but for a thread of a particular topic, thematic reading. ...
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(2019-05-20)This study explores practices of forgiveness in post-Reformation England in light of the rejection of the Sacrament of Penance. I argue that forgiveness for 16th-century English Protestants was a communal technology and a ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This study examined reading programs in 68 Texas elementary schools that were identified as successful by their scores on TAAS assessment results in the 1999-2000 school year. These schools student populations had a high ...
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(2014-12-17)This mixed-methods study investigated the impact of a multilayered approach to coaching that combined on-going coaching with a six hour staff development session. It examined the effects of coaching on the reading progress ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of School Home Links activity guide homework on kindergarten Texas Primary Reading Inventory scores. Student Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI) scores were obtained ...
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(2004)This article is an overview of studies in a special issue of the journal, focused on reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts.
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)ComfortâÂÂwith its various connotations of physical ease, wealth, independence, and serviceâÂÂis an important concept to Jane Austen, who uses comfort in her novels to both affirm and challenge accepted womenâÂÂs ...
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(2011-02-22)Over the years, multiple studies have been conducted to determine what influences writing. Through the studies, few concrete conclusions have been reached on why individuals write the way they do. Research on children has ...
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(Journal of Visual Impairments and Blindness, 2007)
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(Journal of Visual Impairments and Blindness, 2009)
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(2019-05-31)This dissertation aimed to study the role of executive function (with a major focus on working memory [WM] skills) in English reading and Chinese writing. The first study examined the growth trajectories of WM and reading ...
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(Journal of Visual Impairments and Blindness, 2004)
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(2009-05-15)Among the multiple dimensions of reading, vocabulary knowledge and strategies are essential to skilled reading. As a result, this two-part dissertation (a) systematically examines the vocabulary intervention research, in ...
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(2009)This article introduces the birth of a journal, Writing Systems Research, and what it will cover.