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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Role of Academic-Language Features for Reading Comprehension of Language-Minority Students and Students from Low-SES Families
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Heppt, Birgit; Haag, Nicole; Böhme, Katrin; Stanat, Petra – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Academic language is frequently assumed to be especially challenging for students from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) and even more so for language-minority students. Due to their often especially disadvantaged position regarding socioeconomic background and exposure to the language of instruction, language minority students are…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Minorities, Minority Group Students, Low Income Groups
Rethinking Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Comparison of Instruction for Strategies and Content Approaches
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McKeown, Margaret G.; Beck, Isabel L.; Blake, Ronette G. K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2009
Reports from research and the larger educational community demonstrate that too many students have limited ability to comprehend texts. The research reported here involved a two-year study in which standardized comprehension instruction for representations of two major approaches was designed and implemented. The effectiveness of the two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness