Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Pea Pickers: Captain Marilyn (Plowg) Plowgian, 1157 Wilmington Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, had the singular distinction of being the only female captain in our group, and she conducted her captainship with success: the Pea Pickers were the only...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Scorpions: Captain Lee Dennison, 964 Hollywood Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, amazed us all with his limitless energy. No sooner had his boat tied up than he was off running agilely over the rocks and boulders. Due to currents, and other sundry...
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Chapter 6
Reflection
Looking back at this project, I have been able to witness, first hand, the important
role that parents play in their child’s academic success. As a teacher I understood that
those students that did not receive help from...
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Students Who Benefit from RTI
Kamps et al. (2007) compared the effects of English language learners (ELL) receiving
Tier 2 interventions to ELL students being taught using a balanced literacy approach to reading.
The study found students...
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Social Thinking Skills:
An Action Research Project Addressing Social Thinking
Skills Deficits in Second and Third Graders
A Thesis submitted to Southern Utah University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of...
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“Comprehension is a complex process” (Pardo, 2004, p. 272). Therefore, reading comprehension requires certain skills and knowledge: decoding words, reading fluently with prosody, and personally interacting with the text to make meaning from...
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Fewster, & McCormick (2010) further stated that “approximately eight million adolescents struggled with reading” (p. 636).
High School (9th to 12th Grade)
Cassidy, Valadez, Garrett, & Barrera (2010) reported that adolescent literacy is a hot...
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(1996) conducted a study to determine if a text was too easy, appropriate, or too difficult for the 38 participants involved. Their criterion was based on percentages of scores: under 40% meant that the text was too difficult; 40% to 60% meant...
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(2002) suggest that students must view reading as a pleasurable activity because
“children who dislike something may avoid it or give only partial attention to learning it,
although they have the self-confidence to learn lessons and attempt...
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Independent Reading Minute Logs
Student maintained logs (in the form of a calendar) of at-home reading minutes
throughout this project (Appendix L). Careful attention was given by project participants
to record time spent at home performing...
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The minutes recoded on reading logs were indicative of commitment to reading during
the project. S3, despite having 100% attendance to book club meetings, was the sole
student not meeting the school goal of at least 600 minutes of monthly...
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Schiefele, U., (1999). Interest and learning from text. Scientific Studies of Reading, 3,
257-279.
Serafini, F. (2000). Before the conversations become “grand”. The California Reader,
33(3), 19-24
Stringer, S.A., Mollineaux, B. (2003)...
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events. After observing and interviewing all students in the creative project, the instructor
realized that the boys often became frustrated and tired of repetition, like converting
measurements for the scale drawing project and making numerous...
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Learning in detail about the different learning styles created by Howard Gardner
increased my desire to implement the strategies that have been proven to help students learn to
the best of their abilities. Even though at times I feel frustrated...
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A 2005 study of fifth graders across three inner city Baton Rouge schools
conducted by, J.L. Smith and C.E. Mostenbocjer, found that gardens in the school
correlated with a higher achievement in science (Blair, 2009, p. 23). In a separate...
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same time, citizens of industrialized nations, the United States chief among them, [were]
becoming alienated from the sources of food they eat” (Gow 2005). “To decrease the
threat of the obesity epidemic, children need to broaden the...
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to take some of the grading burden, teachers could more easily “assign more writing, and so
students could get the practice they needed to develop as writers—practice that was not possible
in most classrooms because of the burden it placed on...