Improving reading comprehension and social studies knowledge in middle school

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Improving Content Knowledge and Comprehension for English Language Learners: Findings From a Randomized Control Trial (2017, methodology): “This study investigated the efficacy of the PACT set of instructional practices (Vaughn et al., 2013) adjusted to meet the needs of ELs in eighth-grade social studies classes.”
Reading Comprehension (2016, background): “For example, the Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) intervention, designed to improve content knowledge in social studies, also improved reading comprehension (Vaughn et al., 2013).”
Engaging Struggling Adolescent Readers to Improve Reading Skills (2017, background): “The effect sizes are of practical significance and suggest that STARI students showed progress across a range of components that underlie skilled reading (Lipsey et al., 2012; Scammacca et al., 2013; Slavin et al., 2008; Vaughn et al., 2013).”
Literacy and Text Reading in Middle and High School Social Studies and English Language Arts Classrooms (2016, methodology): “Although barriers exist to conducting large-scale observation studies, data collection methods such as audio recordings have been used 218 E. Swanson et al. successfully in large research studies to determine classroom practice (e.g., Vaughn et al., 2013).”