The purpose of this study was to explore what I, a general education classroom teacher, know about using arts integration to build English Learners (ELs) reading comprehension. As the primary researcher, I am a fifth-grade, general education teacher in an intermountain West, Title 1, urban school where the typical classroom contains over 50% EL students. The studys two other participants were Martha, the director of the universitys arts partnership, and Camilla, a fellow faculty member who integrates arts into her curriculum. This qualitative Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practice research methodology was utilized to uncover my knowledge of teaching practices and pedagogy while simultaneously focusing on student learning (LaBoskey, 2004; Loughran, 2007; Pinnegar & Hamilton, 2009). I used Miles and Huberman (1994) to examine three arts-integrated curriculum units, first and second annotations, and critical friend commentaries in order to uncover the practical and theoretical influences resident in my teaching (Fenstermacher, 1984; Miles & Huberman, 1994; Pinnegar & Hamilton, 2009). The findings revealed five main themes: arts integration, reading comprehension, intentional planning, teacher knowledge, and class culture. Arts integration increased ELs abilities to build requisite schema, acquire essential vocabulary, and attend to oral reading fluency to increase text comprehension. Furthermore, by understanding these themes and their subcategories, I uncovered my tacit knowledge (Polyani, 1967) as it related to my decision-making process for using arts integration. Likewise, the self-study methodology allowed me to articulate my personal practical knowledge of ELs needs and why I employed art-integrative practices to introduce and reinforce content area understandings.

Vi har genomfört en studie med en kvantitativ ansats, i syfte att undersöka hur elevers läsförståelse kan påverka deras resultat i de nationella proven i matematik. Detta görs för att bidra med kunskap till lärare om var det är mest nödvändigt att lägga ner tid för elevers kunskapsutveckling i matematik. Metoden som används i denna studie innefattar en analys av dokument som innehåller data som samlats in från drygt 200 elevers resultat i de nationella proven i svenska och matematik för året 2021/2022. Den data som samlades in bearbetades genom regressionsanalyser. Det statistiskt signifikanta resultatet i studien visar på en stark korrelation mellan elevers läsförståelse och deras prestation i de nationella matematikproven. Slutsatsen framhäver att det kan finnas olika förklaringar till varför resultatet ser ut som det gör, en av orsakerna skulle kunna vara att de nationella proven i matematik innehåller för många textuppgifter som gör att elevernas läsförståelse kan spela en alltför betydande roll. / We have conducted a study with a quantitative approach, aiming to investigate how students' reading comprehension might influence their performance in the national mathematics exams. This is done to contribute knowledge to teachers about where it is most crucial to allocate resources for student success in mathematics. The method employed in this study involves an analysis of documents containing data gathered from over 200 students' results in the national exams in Swedish and mathematics for the year 2021/2022. The collected data was processed through regression analyses. The statistically significant result in the study reveals a strong correlation between students' reading comprehension and their performance in the national mathematics exams. The conclusion highlights that there are different explanations for why the result appears as it does, one of which is that there may be too many word problems in the national mathematics exams, and students' reading comprehension might play an overly significant role.

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This study investigated the cognitive, linguistic, and reading skills of 79 Russian-speaking first and second graders to determine the strongest concurrent predictors of reading achievement. The children were administered a battery of 15 tests from which nine objective, interval-scale measures were derived: phonological awareness, verbal short-term memory, decoding accuracy, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, nonverbal ability (IQ), vocabulary, decoding rate, and rapid naming. In a series of multiple regression analyses, phonological awareness accounted for a small amount of unique variance in both decoding accuracy and decoding rate whereas rapid naming was a unique predictor of decoding rate only. Neither verbal short-term memory nor IQ accounted for any variance in decoding. For reading comprehension, IQ and linguistic comprehension contributed a substantial amount of variance to the prediction of achievement whereas decoding rate did not. However, in a series of direct discriminant function analyses, reliable differences emerged between good and poor decoders on reading comprehension, indicating that decoding <italic> is / CITE/Language Arts

The purpose of this study was to determine whether three typeface variations of dot matrix print [single density, dual density, and photocopied dot matrix type] and two formatting variations [fully justified and left justified] had any effect on the reading rates or reading comprehension of college students when compared to the same typewritten material. A pretest/posttest design with experimental and control groups utilized the Cloze Reading Test and the Nelson Denny Reading Test to measure reading comprehension and reading rates respectively to college students [N= 240]. Subjects were randomly assigned to the groups to test the effects of the six treatment levels and two control groups of the independent variables [typefaces and type formatting] on the dependent variables [reading comprehension and reading rates. Four test sessions were used to collect the data and answer the research question: Do either of the three typeface variations of dot matrix print or the two formatting variables have any effect on reading comprehension or reading rates of the subjects when compared to typewriter type? A factorial analysis of covariance [p. < .05] was used to analyze reading comprehension; and a two way analysis of variance [p. < .05] was used to analyze reading rates. The findings indicated that typefaces or formatting made no significant difference in the reading rate or reading comprehension scores of the subjects tested. / Ph. D.

Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, reading comprehension and reading engagement have decreased in the United States. Our world is also becoming increasingly technological, and a large percentage of individuals in the United States, specifically children, are playing video games. There are increasing amounts of video games that target educational skills, such as reading and math, and video games that have been created strictly for entertainment. This study examined the potential effects of playing text-based video games on the comprehension and engagement of 6-8 grade students with intellectual disabilities. A Multiple Baseline Across Participants single case design was used to measure the comprehension of 4 students as they played text-based games. The data from the study demonstrated that comprehension was higher when playing text-based games as opposed to reading texts on computers at a similar reading level, though more research is needed on this. This study is a pilot study that has the potential to lead to an evidence-based reading practice to support students with intellectual disabilities’ comprehension and reading engagement.