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A Longitudinal Study of the Efficacy of the Cellfield Reading Intervention in a South African Context
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Angela Charalambous; Carien Wilsenach – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
The Cellfield reading intervention is based on the multi-deficit theory of reading difficulties and addresses several foundation skills of reading simultaneously. Existing research has confirmed that the Cellfield intervention leads to improvement in reading skill directly following the intervention, but little data exist to determine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
Contributions of Reader- and Text-Level Characteristics to Eye-Movement Patterns during Passage Reading
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Kuperman, Victor; Matsuki, Kazunaga; Van Dyke, Julie A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The present research presents a novel method for investigating how characteristics of texts (words, sentences, and passages) and individuals (verbal and general cognitive skills) jointly influence eye-movement patterns over the time-course of reading, as well as comprehension accuracy. Fifty-one proficient readers read passages of varying…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Eye Movements, Oral Reading, Reading Tests
An Examination of Reading Skills and Reading Outcomes for Youth Involved in a Crime Prevention Program
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Metsala, Jamie L.; David, Margaret D.; Brown, Sarah – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study examined the incidence of reading impairments, the reading profiles, and the outcomes of a reading intervention for youth involved in a comprehensive crime prevention program. Rates of reading impairments were between 55% and 61%. Reading profiles for participants with reading comprehension impairments showed deficits in phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Youth Programs
From "Acting Reading" to Reading for Acting: A Case Study of the Transformational Power of Reading
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Barden, Owen – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
In this study the author charts the trajectory of an adolescent student's identity, from being a struggling reader to a competent reader and successful young actor. The author argues that reading is central to our ability to make sense of both our inner selves and our surroundings, and that it is therefore imperative that unskilled readers are…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
A Study of Extensive Reading with Remedial Reading Students
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Lituanas, P. M.; Jacobs, G. M.; Renandya, W. A. – Online Submission, 1999
This book chapter reports a study designed to examine the effectiveness of an English-language ER program for remedial students at a public secondary school in the southern Philippines. Sixty first-year students at the school, 30 females and 30 males, who were to be assigned to remedial reading classes constituted the participants in this study.…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
An Investigation of Extensive Reading with Remedial Students in a Philippines Secondary School
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Lituanas, P. M.; Jacobs, G. M.; Renandya, W. A. – Online Submission, 2001
This article reports a six-month study that used a matched-pairs pre-test, post-test control group design to measure the relative effectiveness of extensive reading with remedial reading students in a Philippines secondary school (n = 60). Ninety percent of students at the school come from low-income homes where reading materials tend to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness