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Miao Li; Yueming Xi; Esther Geva; Rong Yan; Wei Zhao – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
It has been suggested that the reading acceleration program (RAP) (Breznitz et al. in Nature Communications 4: 1486, 2013), in which participants are forced to read at a rate faster than their normal reading fluency rate, improves reading fluency and comprehension in alphabetic languages. However, its effectiveness has never been examined in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Reading Instruction, English (Second Language)
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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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Lim, Lisa; Arciuli, Joanne; Munro, Natalie; Cupples, Linda – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We evaluated the MULTILIT--"Making Up Lost Time in Literacy"--instruction program for individuals with Down syndrome. The 12-week program was administered on a 1:1 basis to participants who were assessed at three timepoints: Baseline, pre-instruction, and post-instruction. Participants were allocated non-randomly to two groups that had…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Down Syndrome, Reading Instruction
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Scarborough, Hollis S.; Sabatini, John P.; Shore, Jane; Cutting, Laurie E.; Pugh, Kenneth; Katz, Leonard – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
To obtain a fuller picture of the efficacy of reading instruction programs for adult literacy learners, gains by individual students were examined in a sample (n = 148) in which weak to moderate gains at the group level had been obtained in response to tutoring interventions that focused on strengthening basic decoding and fluency skills of low…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Adult Literacy, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Calhoon, Mary Beth; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this project was to examine group- and individual-level responses by struggling adolescents readers (6th-8th grades; N = 155) to three different modalities of the same reading program, Reading Achievement Multi-Component Program. The three modalities differ in the combination of reading components (phonological decoding, spelling,…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Programs, Remedial Reading, Middle School Students
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Baker, Doris Luft; Park, Yonghan; Baker, Scott K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the developmental patterns in pseudoword reading and oral reading fluency in Spanish and English for Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in grades 1-3, and (b) investigate whether initial status and growth rates in reading fluency in Spanish and English, significantly predicted reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading, Reading Programs