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    The Effectiveness of Literature Circles for Increasing Engagement and Comprehension in Language Arts/Social Studies Novels 

    Connell, Susan Hansen
    Northwest University, July 2011
    iv, 39 pages
    What teaching strategies work best to increase the engagement level and comprehension of required texts for middle school students? This study looked at the effectiveness of specific reading strategies in conjunction with ...
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    Implicit vs. Explicit Instructional Strategies Regarding Reading Comprehension 

    Maxwell, Lisa
    Northwest University, July 2014
    ii, 23 pages
    There is much debate as to which instructional strategy works best regarding reading instruction. It was my intention to better understand whether using an implicit or explicit instructional strategy is more beneficial ...
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    Drawing a Picture as a Pre-Writing Strategy in First Grade 

    Cloe, Tracy
    Northwest University, Summer 2007
    23 pages
    In this study the writing products of 21 first-grade students, who drew a picture before writing a story, was compared with the writing products of 21 first grade students who wrote without drawing a picture. The students ...
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    Implementing Character Education in the Secondary English/Language Arts Classroom 

    Johnson, Jenny
    Northwest University, June 2010
    iv, 41 pages
    On a daily basis, students are faced with moral and ethical choices. Based on the level of their development of character, students handle situations and dilemmas very differently from each other. Some choose to ignore ...
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    Practice Makes Perfect: Increasing Reading Proficiency Through Sustained Silent Reading - a Quantitative Study 

    Von Pohle, Reid
    Northwest University, July 2010
    iv, 44 pages
    There have only been moderate educational gains for American students in literary ability over the last thirty years. Increasing the time students spend reading is seen by some to be away to improve their literary skills. ...
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    Critically Gauging Film Use as a Teaching Aid in a High School Literature Class 

    Platter, Stephanie J.
    Northwest University, August 2008
    iii, 56 pages
    As a teacher of English literature in an over-stimulated media-driven era, motivating the reader to enjoy and engage in literature can seem impossible. Literature teachers have used film adaptations for years in correspondence ...
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    Literature and its Effects on the Individual 

    Long, Matthew
    Northwest University, July 2011
    2, 1, 35 pages
    Reading and the study of literature have a seemingly permanent place in all levels of education. Still, the question of why students, or readers of any age for that matter, should read literature has no clear and easy ...
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    Fluency and Reading Comprehension: the Correlation Between the Two 

    Magraw, Jesse
    Northwest University, July 2014
    iv, 19 pages
    With the shift to the Common Core, third graders are now assessed on their fluency. This study addresses my research question regarding this new standard: Is there a correlation between the three elements of fluency ...
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    Sight Word Recognition and Reading Proficiency 

    Long, Lisa Marie
    Northwest University, NaN
    iii, 32 pages
    There is a large body of research surrounding the importance of teaching sight words in the classroom as a key component of any reading program because of the relationship that exists between sight words recognition and ...
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    The Literature Circles Teaching Method 

    Pence, Brittney N.
    Northwest University, Summer 2007
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