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Book Whole Language Approaches

Download or read book Whole Language Approaches written by Barbara Smith Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of Instructional Method on Fourth grade Reading Achievement

Download or read book The Effects of Instructional Method on Fourth grade Reading Achievement written by William T. Agnew and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Purpose, scope, and method of study. This study compared reading achievement between two groups of students in Christian schools: one used a phonics approach, while the other used a balanced approach to teach reading to fourth-grade students. The difference of the means of the spring 2002 SAT reading comprehension scores and the spring 2003 SAT reading comprehension scores of the students in the two groups were compared. Scaled scores were used because the scaled score enables one to compare students' test scores with those of other students and evaluate changes in student performance across subtests and testing occasions. School administrators provided data from spring 2002 SAT scores and spring 2003 SAT scores for each student. The students were divided into four different levels based on their spring 2002 SAT scaled score. The data was analyzed by a factorial ANOVA. The independent variables were the method of instruction and the scaled score level of the students, while the dependent variable was the change in the students' scores from pretest to posttest. Findings and conclusions. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference between the two groups (phonics approach and balanced approach). Thus, the hypothesis of this study was rejected. Teaching methodology had no significant effect on reading comprehension achievement for this study. A significant main effect for Level was found. Students (in both groups) that started fourth grade at the lowest level showed a significant increase in scaled score on reading comprehension by the end of fourth grade when compared against the other three reading performance levels."--Abstract.

Book The Effect of Whole Language on the Reading and Language Arts Achievement of Low Ability Fourth Grade Students

Download or read book The Effect of Whole Language on the Reading and Language Arts Achievement of Low Ability Fourth Grade Students written by Heidi L. Wadle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Comparative Study of the Effects on Reading Achievement and Attitude of Fourth Grade Students Exposed to Two Approaches of Reading Instruction

Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Effects on Reading Achievement and Attitude of Fourth Grade Students Exposed to Two Approaches of Reading Instruction written by Joanne Mary McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading and Writing to Learn

Download or read book Reading and Writing to Learn written by Joanne Pugatch Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book College elementary School Reading Partners

Download or read book College elementary School Reading Partners written by Rebecca Sue Kelly Huechteman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine what effects a college and elementary student supplemental independent reading partner project had on the attitudes, word attack skills, and reading comprehension of average fourth grade readers. The study involved 52 fourth graders who had scored in the third quintile on the reading subtest of the Missouri Mastery Achievement Test at the end of the third grade. All elementary students involved in the study were pre-tested and posttested through administrations of the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey and the Word Attack and Passage Comprehension subtests of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Revised . The 26 students making up the treatment group were assigned college reading partners who met with them twice a week for a half-hour period of recreational reading. The other 26 students, the control group, received only regular classroom instruction. The data in this study were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The posttest means were compared using pretest scores as the covariate and posttest scores as the dependent variable. Results of the analysis revealed a significant improvement in the academic reading attitude, the recreational reading attitude, and the word attack scores of the treatment group when compared to the control group. The improvement in passage comprehension of the treatment group when compared to that of the control group was not statistically significant, but was approaching significance. On the basis of this study it can be concluded that a college-elementary reading partnership which focuses on recreational reading can improve the reading attitudes, word attack skills, and passage comprehension of the average fourth grade reader.

Book Reading Literacy in the United States

Download or read book Reading Literacy in the United States written by Marilyn R. Binkley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from the 1991 IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) Reading Literacy Study, a study compared United States fourth- and ninth-grade students to students in 32 other countries; examined relationships between reading comprehension and aspects of family, schooling, and community; and investigated the nature of reading instruction in American classrooms. National samples of classes at the grade level containing the most 9-year-olds and 14-year-olds were used. A "world average" was constructed of the 18 participating nations that are also members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Results indicated that (1) American fourth graders outperformed students from all other countries except Finland; (2) American ninth graders' performance was closely grouped with that of students from 15 other nations; (3) in the United States, White students read better than Black and Hispanic students; (4) most groups of American students outperformed the OECD average; (5) students whose parents did not finish high school read at about the same level as the OECD average at fourth grade, but fell below the average in the ninth grade; (6) when differences in wealth, race/ethnicity, level of parental education, and other related attributes were taken into account, children from one-parent mother-only families did as well as children from two-parent families; (7) parents' educational attainment influenced reading comprehension over and above other aspects of family background; (8) what teachers said they believed about reading instruction differed markedly from what they actually did and had students do. (Contains 70 references, 43 notes, 4 exhibits, 3 tables, and 29 figures of data.) (RS)

Book Effects of Differentiated Instruction on Student Comprehension and Attitude in the Fourth Grade Reading Classroom

Download or read book Effects of Differentiated Instruction on Student Comprehension and Attitude in the Fourth Grade Reading Classroom written by Pamela Martus and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impact of Online Instruction on Fourth Grade Students Reading Self efficacy and Achievement

Download or read book The Impact of Online Instruction on Fourth Grade Students Reading Self efficacy and Achievement written by Chad E. Wickard and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quantitative, quasi-experimental study examined the relationships between self-efficacy and reading achievement as mediated by an online instructional delivery system called MobyMax® over a period of time between a pretest and a posttest. The sources of self-efficacy were also investigated for the individual contribution of each of the four sources; process accomplishments or mastery experiences, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological states. Finally, the current study explored the relationships across gender and ethnicity (White, Black, Hispanic, and other). Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to organize the data using a mixed factorial ANOVA to analyze the interventions’ and time factor’s impact on reading self-efficacy and reading achievement. A multiple regression was used to calculate the individual contribution of the four sources of self-efficacy on reading achievement, and a t-test to identify the mean differences across gender. Finally, a One-way ANOVA was used to identify the variance across ethnicities. One statistically significant finding was the mean differences between males and females in reading achievement on both the pretest as well as the posttest. All other findings were not statistically significant. MobyMax® was not shown to make a statistically significant difference, positive or negative, in reading achievement or self-efficacy. More research needs to be conducted to examine the relationship of self-efficacy and achievement in the elementary years.