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Gao, Tao; Zhao, Junfeng; Li, Xiaoming; Mao, Yuchen; Chen, Qiong; Harrison, Sayward E. – Educational Psychology, 2020
The current study examined the effects of a silent rapid reading skills training intervention on the reading rate and reading achievement of primary school students in China in order to determine the efficacy of the intervention and explore potential gender differences. A total of 108 Chinese primary school students were randomly assigned by the…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Achievement Gap, Chinese, Intervention
Gray, Holly Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study tested the effects of a Sustained Silent Reading program on reading achievement and reading attitude. The study accessed scores from the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (Good, Kaminski, & Dill, 2007) to measure reading achievement. This measure was given before and after a twelve week period, during which the treatment group…
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Olateju, Moji A. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2007
This paper reports on the Reading Kiosks English literacy project carried out in Opa-settlement, Ile-Ife in Nigeria. In all, 46 girls between the ages of 7 and 22 years took part in activities such as journal writing, shared reading, uninterrupted sustained silent reading, world literacy day celebration, story telling, retelling and writing, a…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Story Telling, Sustained Silent Reading, Silent Reading