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WILL STORYTELLING ACTIVITIES INCREASE DRA READING COMPREHENSION SCORES OF 2ND GRADERS?

Halleck, Marilyn Kathleen

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2007, Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, Reading.
Story retelling is often used as a measure of reading comprehension. Hence, the ability to retell a story read (a literary tale) has become an important academic skill (Benson & Cummins, 2000, Bloome, Katz & Champion, 2003). Teachers need to have pedagogical approaches that are effective for retelling a literary tale that strengthens reading comprehension for all students. This study proposed that adding the art of storytelling to an already literacy-rich classroom environment would be an additional educational approach to accomplish this outcome. The research question that this case study attempted to answer was, “What effect will training second grade students in the art of storytelling have on their Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) reading comprehension scores?” A classroom of twenty-one students from a northwest Ohio school district was taught a unit on oral storytelling over an eleven-week period. Subsequently, pre-and-post-reading comprehension scores were obtained for fourteen students who participated in the study. The Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) was chosen for the assessment tool. Scores were analyzed based upon the criteria set forth in the DRA and categorized into four reading profiles: good decoders/good comprehenders, good decoders/poor comprehenders, poor decoders/good comprehenders and poor decoders/poor comprehenders. The results of this case study indicate that teaching the art of storytelling in a literacy-rich environment did not have an adverse effect upon the reading comprehension scores for any of the fourteen participants, and appeared, with this population of students, that it may have had a favorable effect on reading comprehension.
Nancy Fordhan (Advisor)

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  • Halleck, M. K. (2007). WILL STORYTELLING ACTIVITIES INCREASE DRA READING COMPREHENSION SCORES OF 2ND GRADERS? [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174680252

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Halleck, Marilyn. WILL STORYTELLING ACTIVITIES INCREASE DRA READING COMPREHENSION SCORES OF 2ND GRADERS? 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174680252.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Halleck, Marilyn. "WILL STORYTELLING ACTIVITIES INCREASE DRA READING COMPREHENSION SCORES OF 2ND GRADERS?" Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174680252

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)