ERIC Number: EJ1211095
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1057-3569
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Historical Literacy Instruction for All Learners: Evidence from a Design Experiment
Wissinger, Daniel R.; Ciullo, Stephen P.; Shiring, Elizabeth J.
Reading & Writing Quarterly, v34 n6 p568-586 2018
We used a design-based research model to examine a historical literacy intervention in Grade 6 classrooms. This article describes the results across 2 separate instructional cycles and for students grouped into 4 categories: (a) high-achieving students (n = 23 and n = 24 for Cycle I and Cycle II, respectively), (b) average-achieving students (n = 39 and n = 44), (c) low-achieving students (n = 17 and n = 23), and students with disabilities (n = 9 and n = 8). The findings suggest that the intervention enhanced students' ability to read historical sources and produce more sophisticated historical writing. Although comparisons of measures of reading comprehension suggest that high-achieving students outperformed students with disabilities in 2 separate instructional cycles (all ps < 0.05), students with disabilities earned comparable comprehension scores as their average-achieving and low-achieving peers in both instructional cycles; moreover, all 4 groups of learners constructed essays at posttest in the 2nd instructional cycle that were statistically similar.
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy Education, History, Essays, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Grade 6, Low Achievement, Writing (Composition), Disabilities, Scores, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Tests, Primary Sources, Units of Study, Readability, Readability Formulas, Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Common Core State Standards, Reading Difficulties, Prior Learning, Literature
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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