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Leslie D. Borton; Tina S. Herzberg – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2023
Some students with visual impairments have not learned to read print or braille due to a variety of factors. The inability to read proficiently affects all areas of a person's life. Thus, it is essential that teachers of students with visual impairments (hereafter called "teachers") are systematic and use research-based practices in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Visual Impairments, Reading Instruction, Learning Disabilities
Hana M. Almohamadi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students who have problems comprehending textual material tend to experience failing grades, peer rejection, and even social isolation. Furthermore, students with poor reading comprehension demonstrate poor academic performance in all subjects, not due to difficulty in learning specific subject content (i.e., math, history, etc.), but rather their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
Martínez, Verónica; Castejón, Luis; González-Pumariega, Soledad – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Professional development (PD) of teachers working with students in the first years of learning to read is a privileged way of preventing initial reading difficulties and its effects in the long and short term. This research studies the effects of PD in student reading performance, although the results are not conclusive with regard to which PD…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Coaching (Performance), Literacy Education, Comparative Analysis
Rahmat, Noor Hanim; Arepin, Mazlen; Sulaiman, Suraiya – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
This study investigates students' fear in academic reading as well as the influence of perceived difficulties in their reading comprehension. The paper aims to study the level of anxiety as experienced by undergraduate students in academic reading. Data from 25 respondents were analyzed quantitatively using Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) developed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Fear, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Vibulpatanavong, Kanokporn; Evans, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Phonological awareness has been found to be an important skill underpinning reading development in several alphabetic languages. However, the development of phonological awareness and its relationship to reading development can be influenced by the nature of the language under investigation. While understanding this relationship in Thai language…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Thai
Marshall, Holly B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Seventy-five percent of third grade students who are at-risk will continue to struggle with reading through the years into adulthood, never to recover their potential reading development. Once less-skilled third grade readers reach ninth grade, one in six students are four times more likely to leave high school before receiving a diploma than…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation, Elementary School Students
Kuhn, Melanie; Rasinski, Timothy; Zimmerman, Belinda – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2014
Effective fluency instruction should focus on reading with understanding, rather than simply reading quickly or expressively. This article outlines three research-based instructional approaches that assist students in developing accurate, automatic word recognition and prosody; at the same time, they ensure learners attend to the text's meaning as…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Thurston, Allen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2014
This article presents a critical review of the literature surrounding the potential impact of undiagnosed and untreated vision impairment on reading development in the early years of primary school. Despite pre-school screening programmes, it is still possible for children to enter school with undiagnosed, uncorrected vision impairments. This can…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Clinical Diagnosis, Reading Skills, Young Children
Robinson, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Phonological awareness is the ability to attend to and recognize the sound structure of a language. This skill is known to be important for learning to spell and read and a lack of phonological awareness skills is linked with reading difficulties. Previous research has shown phonological awareness training improves phonological awareness skills,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Difficulties, Teaching Methods, Spelling
Morris, Darrell – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Teachers who work with struggling beginning readers need a supervised training experience that leads them to understand both how reading ability develops and how to adapt instruction to meet the needs of individual children. The practicum, in which a teacher works with one struggling reader under the supervision of an experienced and expert…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Practicums, Reading Ability, Teaching Methods
Chauncey, Caroline T., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) Learning Progressions in Science: A New Approach Emphasizes Sustained Instruction in Big Ideas (Patti Hartigan); (2) Putting the "Boy Crisis" in…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Gender Differences, Reading Improvement, School Newspapers
Lesley, Mellinee – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Increased attention is being given to the attitudes exhibited by preservice teachers enrolled in secondary-level content area literacy courses, who frequently resist the idea of teaching reading to their future students. To develop a greater understanding of such perspectives, the author analyzed literacy narratives written by undergraduate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Spencer, Linda J.; Tomblin, J. Bruce – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2009
This study investigated the phonological processing skills of 29 children with prelingual, profound hearing loss with 4 years of cochlear implant experience. Results were group matched with regard to word-reading ability and mother's educational level with the performance of 29 hearing children. Results revealed that it is possible to obtain a…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Memory, Learning Processes

Roberts, Tessa – Reading, 1980
Examines research evidence that suggests an association between impulsivity and poor reading performance; outlines methods that have been helpful in training children to respond less impulsively, to take more time, and to make fewer mistakes so that ultimately they may become better readers. (Author/GT)
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties
Lilles, Elena; Griffiths, Amy-Jane; Lee, Allison; Cardenas, Santiago; Chacko, Yasmin; Jimerson, Shane R. – California School Psychologist, 2008
Poor reading ability is associated with numerous negative consequences. School psychologists should provide teachers with resources and support to improve student reading ability and prevent these negative outcomes. This paper offers a guide for school psychologists to use in the consultation process when working with teachers to address students'…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Consultants, School Psychologists