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home. Both high and low ELLs received homework help from family members on a regular
basis, which included parents, cousins, aunts, and grandparents. These averages were based on a
5-point scale: never = 1, rarely = 2, sometimes = 3, most of the...
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column 2, the averages of parents visiting the public library was measured on a 4-point scale:
never = 1, once per year = 2, once per month = 3, once per week = 4. Parents of high ELLs go to
the family center more often and are 69% more likely...
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Appendix C
Parent and Student Surveys in English and Spanish
Parent Survey
Purpose: Ms. Berglund would like to improve her teaching practices by connecting and relating to literacy experiences in the home and
community. Please fill out this...
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11. Do siblings in the
home help each other
with homework
assignments?
Yes No
12. What types of reading
materials do you have in
the home? (Circle all that
apply)
Magazines Church
literature
Newspapers Books Other
(Specify)
13. Where do you...
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Student Survey
Purpose: Ms. Berglund would like to learn more about your reading and writing experiences at home and in the community so I can help you
more in the classroom.
*Directions: Please read each of the 35 questions carefully then...
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Literacy Activities in the Community
27. How often do you go
to the community library?
1x a week 1x month 1x a year Never
28. Where do you find
books to read outside of
school? (Circle all that
apply)
Community
library
Home...
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support those struggling students.
Procedures
To complete this study, the researcher developed a math homework tracker to
obtain a better idea of what is being done at home to support students in day to day
learning objectives. This tracker was...
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through monthly notes giving the number of lessons attended, reading level of student, rate and
accuracy, and any other relevant comments.
Teachers, along with colleagues in the school teaching the same grade level, special
educators, speech...
SOCIAL THINKING INTERVENTIONS
The curriculum was based on two commercially available social thinking
curriculums: Think Social! by Michelle Garcia Winner, and Super Hero Social Skills by
Bill Jensen. Lessons were individually tailored to meet the...
SOCIAL THINKING INTERVENTIONS
Both students improved their time on topic. Student A increased from 30% of his
responses being on topic to 65%. Student B's time on topic at school was not an outlier;
therefore specific data was not collected,...
about the book When Hollywood Came to Town again and got in touch with her. She said the books should be reprinted around the middle of May. We are getting them for 50% off, so $15 per book. She is going to touch base with me again around the...
need two extra centerpieces. I haven’t been able to get in contact with May Hunter. I called her daughter, Jennifer Davis, to see if she had a way I could get in touch with her. I finally reached May and got everything figured out. I...
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Website Hosting
As we discussed in our chapter on Internet Fundamentals, websites
are made available to the Internet via web servers. A web server
technically can be any computer with an Internet connection and
the proper...
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ably take up the least amount of space. With an average file size of about 15
KB, well over 3,000 web pages could be stored at a 50 MB server space.
Much more space is taken up by images, databases, and downloadable files
such...
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religious practices or beliefs within a country. These reports are accompanied with
information on how the country’s government has responded to any violations of human
rights.
The ultimate use of these reports is to provide the...
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departments, the human rights agencies, non‐government organizations, countless news
articles and reports, and a host of other organizations. Whatever numbers you’re able to
scrounge up, you shove them together as nicely as you...
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Delimitations This study did not attempt to determine how to best teach comprehension and/or which programs were most effective to improve adolescent literacy skills. The study did not focus on understanding how students best learn or which...
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DRP Test
Procedure
The participants took the DRP first. They were given the same instructions: read the text selection and select the word that fits best and makes the most meaning in the sentence/paragraph. To complete the test, they were given...
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Appendix A
Pre-Reading Survey
1. Do you feel that you are a good reader?
Why or why not?
2. Do you like to read?
3. Do you feel that it is important to read and read well?
4. How much time to you spend reading a day (on average)?
5. On average,...