Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Education

Department

Education

First Advisor

Brantley, Diane

Second Advisor

Littleton, Brenda

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the motivational affects of Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI) and generative themes applications in the effort to change students' attitude and behavior in reading novels and volume reading materials to improve ninth grade reading comprehension. A descriptive six-week qualitative study on improving ninth grade students' reading comprehension through teaching the concept of whole language and Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI) was conducted.

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