Comprehension Tools for Teachers : Reading for Understanding from Prekindergarten through Fourth Grade / Carol McDonald Connor, Beth M. Phillips and Michael Kaschak.
This paper describes the theoretical framework, as well as the development and testing of the intervention, Comprehension Tools for Teachers (CTT), which is composed of eight component interventions targeting malleable language and reading comprehension skills that emerging research indicates contri...
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| Summary: | This paper describes the theoretical framework, as well as the development and testing of the intervention, Comprehension Tools for Teachers (CTT), which is composed of eight component interventions targeting malleable language and reading comprehension skills that emerging research indicates contribute to proficient reading for understanding for prekindergarteners through fourth graders. Component interventions target processes considered largely automatic as well as more reflective processes, with interacting and reciprocal effects. Specifically, we present component interventions targeting cognitive, linguistic, and text-specific processes, including morphological awareness, syntax, mental-state verbs, comprehension monitoring, narrative and expository text structure, enacted comprehension, academic knowledge, and reading to learn from informational text. Our aim was to develop a tool set composed of intensive meaningful individualized small group interventions. We improved feasibility in regular classrooms through the use of design-based iterative research methods including careful lesson planning, targeted scripting, pre- and postintervention proximal assessments, and technology. In addition to the overall framework, we discuss seven of the component interventions and general results of design and efficacy studies. [This paper was published in "Educational Psychology Review" v26 n3 p379-401 Sep 2014 (EJ1040791).] |
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| Item Description: | Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED). Contract Number: R305F100027. Abstractor: As Provided. Educational level discussed: Early Childhood Education. Educational level discussed: Elementary Education. Educational level discussed: Kindergarten. Educational level discussed: Primary Education. Educational level discussed: Grade 1. Educational level discussed: Grade 2. Educational level discussed: Grade 3. Educational level discussed: Grade 4. Educational level discussed: Intermediate Grades. |
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