Julia Kara-Soteriou, Catherine Kurkjian Co-chairs of CARR Research Committee This Connecticut Association for Reading Research (CARR) investigation focuses on what reading scholars refer to as New Literacies (Lankshear & Knobel, 2003; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004) of the Internet…
An Analysis of Writing Performance in Grades 1, 3, and 5
Keely Edwards Abstract This study examined writing samples in grades 1, 3, and 5 for organization, imagination and content focus, word choice and sentence fluency. Participants in this study were students (n= 93) in grades 1, 3, and 5 that…
Can Topic Choice Positively Influence Motivational and Performance Levels of Fourth- Grade Boys?
Agnes M. Burns Curriculum Specialist, Brookfield, CT Introduction Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, America’s public schools have been challenged to demonstrate “…the four principles of President George W. Bush’s education reform plan: stronger…