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Direct linkPittman, Ramona T.; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Carreker, Suzanne – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
The purpose of this eight week study was to provide explicit instruction to improve spelling to 124 sixth grade students who are speakers of African American English (AAE). Two classroom teachers taught 14 different language arts class sections. The research design was a pretest/posttest/posttest design using wait-list-control. The treatment group…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, African American Culture, Grade 6
Yeh, Yi-Fen; McTigue, Erin M.; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
The article describes a successful intervention program in developing inferential comprehension in a sixth grader. Steve (pseudonym) was proficient in word reading, was able to detect explicit information while reading, but struggled with linking textual information to yield integral ideas. After 10 weeks of working with Steve on word analogies,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 6, Reading Difficulties, Inferences
