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Gibson, Lenwood, Jr.; Cartledge, Gwendolyn – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2012
This study evaluated the effects of a fluency building activity on the oral reading fluency (ORF) and comprehension of four first-grade students identified as at risk for reading failure. The participants in this study were selected because they were members of a group at the highest risk for reading problems, specifically African American boys…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Oral Language, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Miller, Jon F.; Heilmann, John; Nockerts, Ann; Iglesias, Aquiles; Fabiano, Leah; Francis, David J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
This article examines the question: Do lexical, syntactic, fluency, and discourse measures of oral language collected under narrative conditions predict reading achievement both within and across languages for bilingual children? More than 1,500 Spanish-English bilingual children attending kindergarten-third grade participated. Oral narratives…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Oral Reading, Bilingual Students, Spanish