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Improving Reading Comprehension . THROUGH HIGHER-ORDER THINKING SKILLS. Brigitte A. McKown, Cynthia L. Barnett, A Research Project Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the School of Education in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Saint Xavier University Chicago, Illinois May 2007. i ABSTRACT. This action research project was conducted to improve Reading Comprehension with second grade and third grade students. The teacher researchers intended to improve Reading Comprehension by using higher-order thinking skills such as predicting, making connections, visualizing, inferring, questioning, and summarizing.
Improving reading skills is a top priority for all educators. This is reflected at the national level in the No Child Left Behind Act. The result of the No Child Left Behind Act is a new program called Reading First (U.S. Department of Education, 2005). This program provides funding to help states and local
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