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Aleksander Kocaj; Kai S. Cortina; Anita F. Vereb; Joanne F. Carlisle – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
This study used data from the U.S. state of Michigan schools participating in the "Reading First" program to examine the stability of students' disability status in Grades 1 to 3. Reading First aimed to improve at-risk students' reading comprehension through research-based instruction. We analyzed how changes in students' disability…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Students with Disabilities, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Engin Yilmaz; Macid Ayhan Melekoglu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the Repeated Reading and Visual Comprehension Program (TOGAP) developed to support the reading comprehension skills of primary school students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades. The research was conducted with four primary school students with SLD. The changing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
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Dilan Kisikyol; Matthias Grünke; Jennifer Karnes; Anne Barwasser – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2024
This single case study (multiple baselines) evaluates the efficacy of an intervention called "reading racetracks" among three eight-year-old boys with diverse backgrounds, including learning disabilities, limited language proficiency due to migration, and socio-economic challenges. Conducted over three weeks, the training demonstrated…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
Sherry Petty – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Extensive research has been conducted on summer reading loss among children from low-SES families and children who are struggling readers (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2001; Allington, et al., 2010; Compton-Lilly, Caloia, Quast, & McCann, 2016; Cooper, Nye, Charlton, Lindsay, & Greathouse, 1996; Heyns, 1978; Parker & Reid, 2017).…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Vacation Programs, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
Orr, Amy Christine Stevenson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Despite nearly forty years of research on the summer reading loss phenomenon, defined as the backsliding in reading achievement that may occur during the summer when students were not enrolled in school, consensus remains elusive regarding the most effective way to mitigate reading regression. This quantitative, non-experimental research study…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Grade 1, Grade 2, Reading Difficulties
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Van Norman, Ethan R.; Parker, David C. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2016
Educators use curriculum-based measurement of oral reading (CBM-R) to measure student response to instruction. Current decision-making frameworks assume students demonstrate linear growth across a school year. However, growth appears nonlinear for at least a subgroup of students. We assessed the degree to which grade two (n = 800) and grade three…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Oral Reading, Progress Monitoring, Grade 2
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Cook, Pamela; Rodes, Deborah R.; Lipsitz, Kay L. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2017
Reading Recovery, a meaning-based reading program designed for young children at risk of reading failure, is widely implemented across the United States. We discuss the recent Reading Recovery $45 million four-year i3-funded scaleup study that was designed to "cover the expansion of Reading Recovery around the U.S." (May, Sirinides,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Early Intervention, Special Education, Learning Disabilities
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Tovli, Esther – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
This study aimed to examine the effect of an intensive reading intervention on reading motivation. The intervention program, ("Joy of Reading"), was implemented in six 2nd grade special education classes for pupils with learning disabilities, compared to a control group (n = 108 pupils in total). The intervention program was created…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Motivation, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria; Flynn, Lindsay J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2013
This 4-year longitudinal research was designed to study special education determinations of students who participated in Tier 2 intervention in a Response to Intervention (RtI) model focused on reading across Grades 1-4. We compared identification rates for learning disabilities (LD) and student characteristics of 381 students the year prior to…
Descriptors: Special Education, Response to Intervention, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Instruction
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Cholewa, Jurgen; Mantey, Stefanie; Heber, Stefanie; Hollweg, Wibke – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
The investigation of developmental reading and spelling disorders within the framework provided by cognitive neuropsychology has yielded interesting results for several alphabetic orthographies, for example English, Italian, and French. However, this approach has not attracted much attention in German speaking countries up to now. The following…
Descriptors: Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Neuropsychology
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Cohen, E. Judith; Brady, Michael P. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2011
This study investigated the effects of a reading intervention that integrated vowel pattern analysis and children's literature on the word decoding performance of second graders with reading disabilities. The intervention evaluated students' abilities to decode a set of training words using 3 common vowel patterns (syllable types), in isolation…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Intervention, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Childrens Literature
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Oakes, Wendy Peia; Harris, Pamela J.; Barr, Linda Churley – Beyond Behavior, 2009
Children with behavioral challenges are at the greatest risk for chronic school failure. The response-to-intervention (RTI) model was written into law through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 as a means to identify children with learning disabilities. The RTI model provides for increased intervention based on students'…
Descriptors: Intervention, Curriculum Based Assessment, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement
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Swanson, Elizabeth A.; Vaughn, Sharon – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
This study documents the amount and quality of reading instruction provided to second- through fifth-grade students with learning disabilities provided resource-room services. Reading instruction provided by 10 special education resource-room teachers was observed. Findings reveal that teachers and students were on task during instructional time…
Descriptors: Class Size, Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Vocabulary
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Erbey, Rachel; McLaughlin, T. F.; Derby, K. Mark; Everson, Mary – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of reading racetrack and flashcards when teaching phonics, sight words, and addition facts. The participants for the sight word and phonics portion of this study were two seven-year-old boys in the second grade. Both participants were diagnosed with a learning disability. The third participant…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Phonics
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Adlof, Suzanne M.; Catts, Hugh W.; Lee, Jaehoon – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Multiple studies have shown that kindergarten measures of phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge are good predictors of reading achievement in the primary grades. However, less attention has been given to the early predictors of later reading achievement. This study used a modified best-subsets variable-selection technique to examine…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Alphabets, Reading Achievement
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