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Peer reviewedMounsteven, Joyce – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1990
A speed reading technique is described for use with reluctant readers. The technique uses timed probes with practically any reading material, to heighten student motivation in addition to increasing fluency. Methods for self-recording progress data and strategies for building fluency are described. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Precision Teaching, Reading Difficulties
Forsythe, Barbara – 1986
The purpose of this study was to determine if a multidimensional treatment in the study of the content area of social studies would help the average and below average student. The 37 fifth-grade students in this study came from a middle-socioeconomic level of north central New Jersey. The 18 students in the experimental sample received special…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
