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Juliette Quadri; Justine Masson; Martine Poncelet – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate if a group of sixth-grade low achievement language minority (LM) students' reading skills could be improved by an intervention designed to train reading fluency, a critical component of reading development, defined as integrating speed and accuracy (reading rate) as well as prosody. The study included…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Rate, Grade 6, Low Achievement
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Landreth, Shelly J.; Young, Chase – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article examines the effects of a reading fluency intervention on the fluency and comprehension of struggling middle school readers. The secondary fluency routine was developed by the first author, and was based on effective practices described in other studies. Thirty-nine seventh and eighth grade students enrolled in reading intervention…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Middle School Students
Stocks, Christopher Dion – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the effects of repeated reading on readers identified as below grade in sixth and seventh grade. The study was set in a rural middle school located in the foothills of North Carolina. Students selected for the study were identified utilizing Lexile levels to identify them as below grade level for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Reading Instruction
Whittington, Marta – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Adolescent learners face a complexity of reading content they have never before encountered as they enter middle school and become independent in structuring their own academic frameworks. Some students become disconnected and unmotivated readers as school competes with their multiple reading lives. This study examined the use of choice along with…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Qualitative Research, Quasiexperimental Design
Rutt, Simon; Kettlewell, Kelly; Bernardinelli, Daniele – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2015
Catch Up® Literacy is a structured one-to-one literacy intervention for pupils between the ages of 6 and 14 who are struggling to learn to read. It teaches pupils to blend phonemes (combine letter sounds into words), segment phonemes (separate words into letter sounds), and memorise particular words so they can be understood without needing to use…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Literacy, Phonemes, Memorization
Moyer, Rodney Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed method study examined the use of repeated reading with eighteen, eighth grade special education and regular education students. The purpose was to study use of repeated reading's structured, systematic, oral reading intervention while also seeking to further analyze LaBerge and Samuels' "Theory of Automaticity"…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Grade 8, Special Education, Reading Instruction