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Daniel R. Espinas; Jeanne Wanzek – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2024
Facility with learning from multiple text documents is critical for college and career readiness. However, children with reading difficulties and disabilities have been largely excluded from research on multiple document comprehension. Accordingly, little is known about how children with reading difficulties and disabilities perform on…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties
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Bedore, Lisa M.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Collins, Penelope; Fiestas, Christine; Lugo-Neris, Mirza; Barquin, Elisa – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
Purpose: There are well-established links between oral language and reading development in monolingual English-speaking children that are associated with literacy outcomes. Oral language, defined relative to lexical quality, provides key support for developing early reading skills. For bilingual children, the connection between oral language and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Bilingual Students, Literacy
Kent, Shawn C.; Wanzek, Jeanne; Al Otaiba, Stephanie – Grantee Submission, 2017
The present study examined the amount, type, and quality of Tier 1 and supplemental reading instruction provided to fourth-grade struggling readers and whether specific elements of instruction predicted growth in reading skills. 110 students identified as having reading difficulty, receiving school-based reading instruction in 22 classrooms…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction
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Kent, Shawn C.; Wanzek, Jeanne; Al Otaiba, Stephanie – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The present study examined the amount, type, and quality of Tier 1 and supplemental reading instruction provided to 4th-grade struggling readers and whether specific elements of instruction predicted growth in reading skills. In all, 110 students identified as having reading difficulty who were receiving school-based reading instruction in 22…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction
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Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Coyne, Michael D.; Kwok, Oi-man; Simmons, Deborah C.; Kim, Minjung; Simmons, Leslie E.; Skidmore, Susan T.; Hernandez, Caitlin L.; McSparran Ruby, Maureen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
This exploratory study examined the influences of student, teacher, and setting characteristics on kindergarteners' early reading outcomes and investigated whether those relations were moderated by type of intervention. Participants included 206 kindergarteners identified as at risk for reading difficulties and randomly assigned to one of two…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics, Kindergarten
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Fletcher, Jack M.; Francis, David J.; O'Malley, Kimberly; Copeland, Kim; Mehta, Paras; Caldwell, Cathy J.; Kalinowski, Sharon; Young, Victoria; Vaughn, Sharon – Exceptional Children, 2009
This study investigated the efficacy of a package of accommodations for poor readers in Grade 7. Students with and without word reading disabilities were randomly assigned to take an experimental version of a high-stakes reading comprehension test in 1 of 3 formats: (a) standard administration, (b) read aloud accommodations with 1-day…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Economically Disadvantaged, High Stakes Tests
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Chard, David J.; Stoolmiller, Mike; Harn, Beth A.; Wanzek, Jeanne; Vaughn, Sharon; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia; Kame'enui, Edward J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
Despite recent research findings that implicate a long list of student variables that predict reading success or failure, these predictor variables have not been considered in the context of contemporary models of multitiered schoolwide reading intervention. This longitudinal, retrospective study follows 668 kindergarten and first-grade students…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Standardized Tests, Predictor Variables
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Foorman, Barbara R.; York, Mary; Santi, Kristi L.; Francis, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study utilized early reading assessment data from a randomized trial of 210 urban and rural schools in Texas to examine contextual effects on risk prediction in first and second grade. The primary objective was to examine the roles of (a) individual differences, (b) the grade 1 classroom, and (c) the pairing of first and second grade teachers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Difficulties, Rural Schools, Mentors