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Emma Shanahan; Emily Reno; Brennan W. Chandler; Christina Novelli; Jechun An; Seohyeon Choi; Kristen L. McMaster – Grantee Submission, 2024
Although writing instruction can positively impact reading for students across grades and levels of literacy, the extent to which these findings generalize to young students with literacy difficulties is unclear due to the dynamic nature of reading-writing relations. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the effects of writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement
Kathleen Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that fourth-grade students in the United States are not meeting reading proficiency benchmarks. Phonemic awareness is a strong predictor of reading success; however, few studies have investigated its effectiveness for intermediate elementary students who are at risk or struggling readers. The purpose of this quantitative…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Anatoli Kirpouiki; Ioannis Agaliotis – British Journal of Special Education, 2025
We examined the efficacy of two interventions aiming to strengthen argumentative text comprehension in Greek secondary students with specific reading disability or low reading achievement of unspecified cause. The first intervention (control group, n = 29) was based on principles of systematic explicit instruction, whereas in the second one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Intervention, Persuasive Discourse
Hill, Kyle Darnell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines how implementing READ 180 for 9th grade students affects their Lexile level and reading ability. The research focuses on two questions: what changes were noticed in the students' Lexile levels? and what program recommendations can be made moving forward? The methodology used was PDSA and improvement science. The study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Grade 9, High School Students
Caitlyn Noelle Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Various approaches have been introduced and tested to try to help struggling high school students catch up on their reading achievement. The current research study investigated how to support high school students with reading difficulties in increasing their reading abilities, engagement, and perception of their school as a supportive and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement, Intervention
Filderman, Marissa J.; Austin, Christy R.; Boucher, Alexis N.; O'Donnell, Katherine; Swanson, Elizabeth A. – Exceptional Children, 2022
Informed by theories of reading comprehension and prior reviews of reading comprehension intervention, this meta-analysis uniquely contributes to the literature because it describes the relative effects of various approaches to comprehension intervention for struggling readers in Grades 3 through 12. Findings from 64 studies demonstrate…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Achievement
Fang Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Measuring reading engagement is critical for monitoring student involvement in academic tasks, as it predicts student reading achievement and further academic success (Anderson et al., 2021; Guthrie et al., 2012). As a multidimensional construct, researchers have employed various methods to assess reading engagement (Gill & Remedios, 2013; Lee…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Reading Achievement, College Students, Tutoring
Mondelle Wint – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the use of literacy coaching to help improve the instructional practices of teachers and increase reading achievement, data of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) indicate that Florida's students are averaging about 60% below NAEP proficient level. This dissertation reported the results of a nonexperimental study that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Young Children, Grade 1
Joanne Coggins – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2024
This study measured the effectiveness of Readable English, a reading fluency and comprehension program, on underperforming sixth, seventh, and eighth grade rural, American English-speaking students over the course of one school year. Students were randomly assigned to either the intervention condition (n = 167) or the typical practice condition (n…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Rodgers, Emily; D'Agostino, Jerome; Berenbon, Rebecca; Mikita, Clara; Winkler, Christa; Wright, Mollie E. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
We respond to calls for more research to address whether and how successful professional development (PD) experiences (defined here in terms of student progress) are related to changes in teacher beliefs, specifically about effective literacy instruction for young struggling readers. We developed a measure, a Teacher Belief Score, to identify…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Faculty Development, Reading Instruction
Gabrielle Vicki Credelle Grant – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Most students with disabilities have reading difficulties and perform significantly lower than their peers without disabilities on low- and high-stakes reading achievement tests. Out of 23 studies on the supplemental Lexia Core5 Reading computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program intervention, 21 studies showed positive reading outcomes for…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction
Votypka, Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this mixed methods study is to examine the relationship and the changes that take place over time between reading motivation, reading frequency and reading achievement for students participating in PREP, a primary reading engagement program. It is imperative to build reading motivation when students are young so they enjoy reading…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement
Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2021
The effectiveness of a morphological awareness (MA) intervention program on reading fluency and accuracy performance was examined in 40 students with reading disabilities in fourth to sixth grade, ranging in age from nine to 12 years old (M = 10.51, SD = 0.89). The study used an experimental pre-post design consisting of a morphological…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Grade 4
Hautala, Jarkko; Ronimus, Miia; Junttila, Enni – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to study the effectiveness of two readers' theater (RT) programs in promoting reading skills and motivation of dysfluent readers in Grades 3-4. One program (RT Goal) included a goal of preparing a performance for an audience (n = 50), while another program (RT Practice) did not include such a goal (n =…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Drama Education, Reading Instruction, Special Education
Carroll, Catherine; Hurry, Jane; Grima, Grace; Hooper, Alistair; Dunn, Krystina; Ahtaridou, Elpida – Curriculum Journal, 2020
Literacy levels for children leaving primary school, internationally, remain a cause for concern. There is a limited evidence base for whole school reading programmes and resources in the first two years of primary school compared to studies of interventions for children with reading difficulties. This study used a longitudinal randomised control…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Skills, Grade 2, Primary Education