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Margaret Osgood Opatz; Sarah Kocherhans – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
This study examined the effect of a supplemental, multicomponent reading intervention with 75 seventh graders who scored below grade level according to a battery of assessments. Students received a yearlong reading intervention during the 2021-2022 or 2022-2023 school year. Students' pretest and posttest data were compared to determine the impact…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Achievement, Secondary School Students, Reading Instruction
Christine Bassett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
On average, English language learners (ELLs) do not demonstrate the same academic achievement as their native English-speaking peers. The number of ELLs in U.S. schools has increased over the last several decades, as has the scholarly debate on how to best support ELLs in building foundational reading skills. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement
Rachel L. Schechter; Anna Robinson; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
State legislators recognized that students in the United States continue to struggle with reading and have begun implementing laws requiring schools to use science of reading-aligned curriculum when teaching reading (Schwartz, 2022). Many students lack the foundational skills to even begin learning how to read in grades K-3 (Kuhfeld et al., 2022).…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
Rachel L. Schechter; Maddie Lee Mason; Laura Janakiefski – Online Submission, 2024
The ongoing literacy crisis in the U.S. highlights an urgent need for effective, scalable literacy instruction. REED Charitable Foundation (RCF) is a non-profit organization that provides structured literacy training informed by Orton-Gillingham, along with ongoing professional coaching and comprehensive implementation support to help all students…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
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Pane, John F.; Seaman, Dorothy; Doss, Christopher Joseph – RAND Corporation, 2023
This report evaluates the effects of Lexia[TM] Core5[TM] Reading (Core5) -- a product of Lexia Learning Systems -- on the reading achievement of students in grades 3-5 during the 2021-2022 academic year. Core5 is a program that focuses on various student literacy skills, such as fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This report represents the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Reading Achievement
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Abduljalil Hazaea – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study implements a timed reading (TR) approach as a scaffolding teaching and learning method to enhance reading achievement and strategies within the Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The study adopted TR intervention in which processes of EFL reading are scaffolded with those of getting a driving license. The study employs a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Whitten, Nashayla Shantelle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study aimed to examine the relationships between third grade reading instructional strategies in high-performing Title-One schools compared to low-performing Title-One schools in four school districts in South Carolina. The study was framed through the lens of Marzano's Theoretical Framework which outlined specific instructional…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction
Jane Ann Schmidt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Instructional coaching has been implemented in schools to improve student achievement; however, literature shows a lack of evidence of the efficacy of improving student reading achievement. The problem addressed in this study was that school districts have implemented instructional coaching to improve student reading achievement, but the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers
Jeremy Pichany – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quasi-experimental quantitative study was to determine whether the supplemental phonics program, Fundations, improved reading skills over time. Ehri's theory of orthographic mapping served as the theoretical framework for this study. Archival data from 254 second grade students who did, or did not, participate in the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Accuracy
Carly D. Robinson; Cynthia Pollard; Sarah Novicoff; Sara White; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
In-person tutoring has been shown to improve academic achievement. Though less well-researched, virtual tutoring has also shown a positive effect on achievement but has only been studied in grade five or above. We present findings from the first randomized controlled trial of virtual tutoring for young children (grades K-2). Students were assigned…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Reading Instruction, Benchmarking, Reading Tests
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Marcia A. Barnes – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
Because deficits in executive functions (EFs) characterize most neurodevelopmental disorders, it is appropriate to question the value of EFs for understanding learning disabilities. Two types of studies--those testing whether EFs moderate treatment effects and those testing the direction of effects between EFs and academic skills--are presented to…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Learning Disabilities, Academic Ability, Intervention
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Aktas, Elif – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Different methods, techniques and strategies are employed in teaching to improve reading, especially comprehension skills to ensure reading motivation. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of readers theater on reading comprehension skills and reading motivation in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. In the study, in which an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement, Reading Motivation
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Ken Nee Chee – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2024
Background: As technology continues to advance, language acquisition methodologies have increasingly been integrated into computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems. In the context of Chinese language acquisition, characters are structured in three phases: the overall character, its components, and its strokes. Proficiency in identifying…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Chinese, Language Proficiency
Votke, Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current research is to determine the effect of changing the English Language Art curriculum on the reading growth of fourth-grade students who attended a public school district located in a suburban community in the Northeastern part of the United States. This ex-post facto study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Murray, Natasha – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed through this study was the low levels of reading comprehension of literary and informational texts among fourth-grade students statewide. The reading workshop model and the guided reading approach are two different instructional methods used to teach reading to fourth-grade students at two school districts in Texas. The…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
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