CALENDAR
1910-1911
FIRST HALF-YEAR
1910
September 16 and 17, Friday and Saturday
....... Entrance Examinations and Registration of Students
September 19, Monday Instruction Begins
November 24 and 25, Thursday and Friday………...
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some studies may not be as universal as anticipated but can give a baseline from which to start.
All teachers commented on the frustration of seeing the best thing come and go to be replaced by
the next best thing.
All of the participants were...
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The bilingual SETHL was formed by downloading and printing commercially available
books from Reading A-Z. These books are professionally-developed, leveled readers, and the
same books were available in both Spanish and English. Two of the...
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toward reading by marking the picture that most closely depicted how they felt about reading.
This quantitative assessment was designed to complement qualitative data in a way that was
reliable, valid, and based on norms with a large-scale frame...
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Procedures
The researcher formed three academically equal groups of students from the
kindergarten class based on the literacy ability of the students as shown on the mid-year DIBELS
assessment. These groups were formed, as closely as possible,...
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Parental surveys were used to determine their feelings associated with reading homework
that was sent home with the students. The same surveys were given to parents whose students
received the SETHL books in Spanish and English, English only, as...
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were sent home in both Spanish and English. These data were then compared to the data from the
parents whose students received SETHL books only in English. Qualitative methods used the
ERAS assessment to measure change in the feelings of the...
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Quantitative data from the daily reading-recording forms were examined to determine if
parental time in reading with their student increased when SETHL books were sent home in both
Spanish and English. These data were then compared to the time...
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The DIBELS scores of Spanish-speaking ESL kindergarten students in this class saw
varying rates of success. All students who at mid-year were given the highest designation of At
or Above Benchmark, or proficient readers for kindergarten level,...