Joanne Carlisle

In general, instructional approaches for improving reading comprehension are not as well developed as are those for decoding. As of 2013, most recent studies had focused on improving reading comprehension in the upper elementary years and beyond, but these have often not shown significant effects. The purpose of this project was to identify aspects of effective instruction in reading comprehension instruction that predict students' reading comprehension gains in first, second, and third grad...

The national focus on teacher quality has reinforced interest in the extent to which subject matter knowledge is a critical component of teacher quality. This interest has, in turn, led to efforts to identify measures of elementary teachers' knowledge about reading, and study the effects of this knowledge on students' learning. A literature review of measures of teachers' knowledge about reading, conducted by this study's researchers, indicated that no currently published studies have repor...