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Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the reading attitude of struggling elementary students at risk for reading failure. Twenty-nine first-grade and 32 second-grade struggling readers were given the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990). First-grade struggling readers favored more academic reading activities while second-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Brooks, Kristina L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Because children living in poverty and minorities consistently demonstrate persistent reading difficulties (Adams, 1990), Congress intervened and passed the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2006) mandating that scientifically based reading research be implemented in the primary grades. Quantitative studies presented in the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Federal Legislation, Reading Skills, Reading Research
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Fawcett, Angela J.; Nicolson, Roderick I.; Moss, Helen; Nicolson, Margaret K.; Reason, Rea – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 2001
Presents a study evaluating the effect of reading intervention with children at risk of reading failure. Explains the program spanned 10 weeks and emphasized word building and phonics skills. States there is a need for continual support as opposed to a short intervention. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries