It has long been known that vocabulary is essential in the development of reading. Because vocabulary leading to increased comprehension is important, it necessary to determine strategies for ensuring that the best methods of teaching vocabulary are used to help students make gains in vocabulary leading to reading comprehension. According to the National Reading Panel, multiple strategies that involve active engagement on the part of the student are more effective than the use of just one strategy. The purpose of this study was to determine if students’ use of visualization, student-generated pictures of onset-and-rime-patterned vocabulary, and story read-alouds with discussion, would enable diverse first-grade students to increase their vocabulary and comprehension. In addition, this study examined the effect of the multimodal framework of strategies on English learners (ELs). This quasi-experimental study (N=69) was conducted in four first-grade classrooms in a low socio-economic school. Two treatment classes used a multimodal framework of strategies to learn weekly vocabulary words and comprehension. Two comparison classrooms used the traditional method of teaching weekly vocabulary and comprehension. Data sources included Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading (FAIR), comprehension and vocabulary scores, and weekly MacMillan/McGraw Hill Treasures basal comprehension questions and onset-and-rime vocabulary questions. This research determined that the treatment had an effect in adjusted FAIR comprehension means by group, with the treatment group (adj M = 5.14) significantly higher than the comparison group (adj M = -8.26) on post scores. However, the treatment means did not increase from pre to post, but the comparison means significantly decreased from pre to post as the materials became more challenging. For the FAIR vocabulary, there was a significant difference by group with the comparison adjusted post mean higher than the treatment’s, although both groups significantly increased from pre to post. However, the FAIR vocabulary posttest was not part of the Treasures vocabulary, which was taught using the multimodal framework of strategies. The Treasures vocabulary scores were not significantly different by group on the assessment across the weeks, although the treatment means were higher than those of the comparison group. Continued research is needed in the area of vocabulary and comprehension instructional methods in order to determine strategies to increase diverse, urban students’ performance.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_EnsinoDiscriminacoesPalavras.pdf: 2940892 bytes, checksum: f450ab4c94d4addd1b8e1ea69d16189d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Estudos recentes têm documentado que o ensino explícito de discriminação de sílabas promove a emergência da leitura das sílabas de ensino e das sílabas com recombinação das letras das sílabas de ensino. Promove também prontamente a leitura de palavras, formadas pelas sílabas de ensino e recombinadas. Estudos têm demonstrado a leitura de palavras novas com recombinação de onset e rime como fator facilitador quando a língua inglesa é ensinada como língua materna. O aprendizado do inglês por cegos tem sido documentado como um fator de inclusão. O presente estudo investigou se o ensino de discriminação de palavras com segmentação onset/rime facilita a leitura de novas palavras em inglês, como língua estrangeira, usando o Braille e o alfabeto romano em relevo. Três cegas, leitoras fluentes em Braille, participaram. O estudo compreendeu três etapas. Etapa I: Etapa Ia (auditivo/Braille), Etapa Ib (Braille/alfabeto romano em relevo) e Etapa Ic (auditivo/alfabeto romano em relevo). A Etapa I (a e b) compreendeu um pré-teste, fases de ensino de discriminações condicionais de palavras simples e testes de leitura textual das palavras simples e recombinadas. Na Etapa Ic era aplicado um teste de discriminações condicionais. Nas Etapas II e III eram aplicados testes de leitura textual das palavras simples recombinadas (Etapa II) e compostas (Etapa III) e nomeação de objetos. Eram testadas as relações entre palavras ditadas e objetos (AB), palavras ditadas e palavras impressas (AC), objetos e palavras impressas (BC) e palavras impressas e objetos (CB) que documentam a leitura com compreensão das palavras impressas em Braille e no alfabeto romano em relevo, e ainda, a emergência de cópia e ditado. As três participantes atingiram o critério de acertos em todas as fases em todas as etapas. Os resultados mostraram que o ensino de discriminações de palavras com a segmentação onset/rime facilita a emergência da leitura recombinativa em inglês, como língua estrangeira, com cegos falantes do português, usando o Braille e o alfabeto romano em relevo, mostraram ainda a emergência da leitura com compreensão com os procedimentos de equivalência de estímulos. Estes resultados indicam que novas tecnologias de ensino, que permitam uma maior inclusão de pessoas cegas na comunidade, podem ser geradas. / Recent studies have documented that the explicit teaching of discrimination of syllables promotes the emergence of reading of syllables of teaching and syllables with recombination of the letters of the syllables of teaching. It also readily promotes the reading of words formed by the syllables of teaching and recombined. Studies have shown the reading of new words with recombination of onset and rime as facilitator factor when the English language is taught as mother tongue. The learning of English by blind people have been documented as a factor of inclusion. This study investigated whether the teaching of discrimination of words with segmentation onset/rime facilitates the reading of new words in English, as foreign language, using Braille symbols and the Roman alphabet in raised letters. Three blind women, fluent Braille readers, participated. The study comprised three stages. Stage Ia (auditory/Braille), Stage Ib (Braille/Roman alphabet in raised letters) and Stage Ic (auditory/Roman alphabet in raised letters). In Stage I the participants were exposed to a pretest, teaching of conditional discrimination and textual reading test of training and generalization words. In Stage Ic it was applied a test of conditional discrimination. In Stages II and III were applied tests of textual reading of recombined simple (Stage II) and compound (Stage III) words and naming of objects. It was tested the relations between spoken words and objects (AB), spoken words and printed words (AC), objects and printed words (BC) and printed words and objects (CB) which documented the comprehension reading of the words in Braille and Roman alphabet in raised letters, and the emergence of copy and dictation. The three participants reached the criterion in all phases of all stages. The results showed that the teaching of discrimination of words with segmentation onset/rime facilitated the emergence of recombinative reading in English, as foreign language, with blind speakers of Portuguese, using Braille and Roman alphabet in raised letters, it also showed the emergence of reading with comprehension with the equivalence of stimuli procedure. These results indicate that new technologies for teaching, that enable greater inclusion of blind people in community, can be generated.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_LeituraRecombinativaPalavras.pdf: 2601453 bytes, checksum: 871ebdf8f0797c48fbb7f84e3d3d5b23 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Estudos têm demonstrado que o ensino explícito de discriminações de sílaba promove a emergência da leitura das sílabas de ensino, das sílabas com recombinação das letras das sílabas de ensino e a leitura de palavras formadas pelas sílabas de ensino e recombinadas. As pesquisas sobre leitura recombinativa em inglês têm demonstrado a emergência de leitura de novas palavras formadas pela recombinação de onset e rime. A presente pesquisa investigou se o ensino de leitura de palavras monossilábicas com recombinação de onset e rime pode promover a leitura de novas palavras em inglês, impressas em braille e alfabeto romano impressas em relevo. Três adultas cegas participaram do estudo que compreendeu três etapas. A Etapa I compreendeu um préteste, três sequências de ensino gradual de discriminações condicionais de palavras simples, intercaladas com fases de teste de leitura textual das palavras de ensino e recombinadas. Na Etapa Ic era aplicado um teste de discriminações condicionais entre palavra impressa em braille e palavra do alfabeto romano impressa em relevo. Nas Etapas II e III eram aplicados testes de leitura textual das palavras recombinadas simples (Etapa II) e compostas (Etapa III) e nomeação dos objetos correspondentes. Após esse teste, eram testadas as relações entre palavras ditadas e objetos (AB), palavras ditadas e palavras impressas (AC, AD), objetos e palavras impressas (BC, BD) e palavras impressas e objetos (CB, DB), que documentam a leitura com compreensão. Caso as relações AB não ocorressem, eram ensinadas. Após o teste das relações de equivalência BC, CB, BD e DB eram verificados os desempenhos de cópia e ditado. Nas Etapas Ia, IIa e IIIa, as palavras eram impressas em Braille; nas Etapas Ib, IIb e IIIb, em alfabeto romano em relevo. Todas as participantes alcançaram prontamente os critérios em todas ou na maioria das fases de ensino e teste. Todas as participantes apresentaram a leitura textual e com compreensão de quase todas as palavras simples recombinadas e compostas, impressas em braille e do alfabeto romano em relevo. Os resultados mostram a emergência de leitura recombinativa após o ensino de discriminações condicionais de palavras monossílabas formadas por onset e rime. / Studies have documented that the explicit teaching of discrimination of syllables promotes the emergence of reading of taught syllables, syllables with recombination of the letters of the taught syllables and the reading of words formed by taught and recombined syllables. Research on recombinative reading in English has demonstrated the emergence of reading of new words formed by the recombination of onset e rime. The present study investigated if the teaching of reading monosyllabic words formed by recombination among onset and rime promote reading of new English words in Braille code and Roman alphabet in raised letters to blind people. Three blind adults participated in the study that was divided in three stages. In Stage I, the participants were exposed to a pretest, three sequences of gradual teaching units of conditional discrimination interspersed with textual reading tests of training and generalization words. In Stage Ic it was applied a test of conditional discrimination among words printed in braille and words in Roman alphabet printed in raised letters. In Stages II and III, tests of textual reading of simple generalization words (Stage II) and compound words (Stage III) and the naming of objects were applied. After that, the relations AB (spoken words – objects), AC, AD (spoken words – printed words), BC, BD (objects – printed words) e CB, DB (printed words – objects) were tested. These relations have documented reading comprehension. After the equivalence tests, it was also verified the emergency of performance in copy and dictation. The words were printed in braille in Stages Ia, IIa e IIIa. The words in Roman alphabet were printed in raised letters in Stages Ib, IIb, and IIIb. All participants reached immediately the criterion in all or in most stages of teaching and test. All participants have presented both textual reading and reading comprehension of simple generalization words and compound words, printed in braille and Roman alphabet in raised letters. The results showed the emergence of recombinative reading after the teaching of conditional discrimination of monossilabic words formed by onset and rime.