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Direct linkSteffie Van Der Steen; Ivonne Douma; Ilse Snippe – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
In this study, we randomly assigned struggling readers in special needs education (n = 23; 8-12 years of age) to a dog-assisted reading intervention or a similar intervention without a dog present. Students participated in 30-minute reading sessions twice a week for a total of six weeks. Using two standardised tests we measured reading skills…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Special Needs Students, Special Education, Animals
Talita Fortunato-Tavares; Debora Befi-Lopes; John Orazem; Aparecido Soares – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) show a wide range of impairments, including poor pre-reading skills and decoding difficulties due to phonological deficits and such difficulties have significant repercussions on the acquisition of written language. However, evidence about reading processes and development is mainly available for…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Tkach, Rochelle; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Reading Horizons, 2020
Research on this intervention program aimed to address whether digital technology (i.e., apps on tablets) contributes to struggling early readers' (4-6 years old) on-task behavior and level of engagement while learning prerequisite emergent literacy skills (e.g., phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition and decoding). The research also…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Multimedia Instruction
Download full textCeylan, Mustafa; Baydic, Berrin – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The purpose of this study was to compare the reading skills of the fourth graders who were poor readers in different text genres (story and informative text). Fifty-six fourth-grade students who were poor readers participated in this study. Reading rates, reading errors and reading prosody characteristics of the students were examined in the…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Literary Genres, Fiction, Nonfiction
Torppa, Minna; Parrila, Rauno; Niemi, Pekka; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
We examined the double deficit hypothesis (Wolf & Bowers, 1999) and literacy development in a longitudinal dataset of 1,006 Finnish children who were nonreaders at school entry. A single phonological awareness (PA) deficit was a predictor of pseudoword spelling accuracy and reading fluency, and a single rapid automatized naming (RAN) deficit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Orthographic Symbols, Emergent Literacy, Longitudinal Studies
Rátiva Velandia, Marlén; Pedreros Torres, Andrés Leonardo; Núñez Alí, Mónica – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
It is considered valuable to take advantage of web activities to improve and qualify the English teaching and learning processes, especially in the promotion of reading comprehension. In this article we share the process and results of a study that focused on some activities based on web materials that were designed and used with 10th grade…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Learning Processes, Reading Comprehension, Grade 10
