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Direct linkBayldon, Helen; Clendon, Sally; Doell, Elizabeth – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
This research examined an evidence based dialogic shared reading strategy which incorporated aided language modelling and increased communication partner responsiveness with two children with complex physical, cognitive, and sensory needs (CPCSN) who use auditory plus visual partner assisted scanning (PAS) to access a Pragmatic Organised Dynamic…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Reading Strategies, Intervention, Students with Disabilities
Dunn, Lori Ann C. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
The 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) findings indicate that only 37% of the nation's twelfth graders are at or above proficiency in reading and the average reading score for students with disabilities is under the basic skill level. Consequently, high school teachers are faced with developing targeted interventions to address…
Descriptors: Visualization, High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Dennis, Lindsay R.; Whalon, Kelly J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
A repeated acquisition (RA) design was used to compare the effectiveness of research-based instruction embedded in repeated storybook reading facilitated by an adult or tablet application (app) on the vocabulary knowledge of six preschool children. All participants selected scored below the 40th percentile on the "Preschool Language…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
Helping Preschool Children Acquire Critical Literacy Skills through Parent Training and Intervention
Murray, Geralyn G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Parents of young children often wonder how they can prepare their preschoolers to read. Many understand the importance of reading to their children and teaching the alphabet but they are unaware of another critical literacy skill needed for children to comprehend the reading process, phoneme awareness. In this study 34 preschool children, 3 to 5…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Instruction, Parents as Teachers, Story Reading
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2015
"Shared book reading" (also known as "interactive shared book reading") encompasses practices that adults can use when reading with children, which are intended to enhance young children's language and literacy skills. During "shared book reading," an adult reads a book to an individual child or a group of children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Beginning Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Emergent Literacy
Ring, Jeremiah J.; Barefoot, Lexie C.; Avrit, Karen J.; Brown, Sasha A.; Black, Jeffrey L. – Remedial and Special Education, 2013
The important role of reading fluency in the comprehension and motivation of readers is well documented. Two reading rate intervention programs were compared in a cluster-randomized clinical trial of students who were considered at-risk for reading failure. One program focused instruction at the word level; the second program focused instruction…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, Reading Difficulties
Moore, Wendy; Hammond, Lorraine; Fetherston, Tony – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
Vocabulary knowledge is an important predictor of literacy and broader academic outcomes, and children's literature is a rich source of sophisticated vocabulary. This study investigated the effect of providing instruction in word meanings as an adjunct to story-book read-aloud sessions in Grade One classrooms. The main intervention programme ran…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Semantics
Steiner, Lilly M. – Reading Psychology, 2014
This study examines a family literacy intervention conducted in two first-grade classrooms with culturally diverse student populations. In the treatment and control classrooms, six parents and a classroom teacher learned practices for building home-school partnerships. Data were analyzed to determine changes in home-literacy practices, increases…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Intervention, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Puhalla, Eve M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2011
This study examined the effects of instructional intensity on the acquisition of storybook vocabulary in first graders who were at risk of early reading failure. It also measured whether the intervention was effective for closing the vocabulary knowledge gap between students who were at risk and their average-achieving peers. A total of 66…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Failure, Vocabulary
Spooner, Fred; Rivera, Christopher J.; Browder, Diane M.; Baker, Joshua N.; Salas, Spencer – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
Recent statistics suggest that the number of English-language learners has been growing at a rapid rate in the United States. The growth of this population will inevitably lead to a larger number of culturally and linguistically diverse students with significant cognitive disabilities. Currently, there is little research on effective literacy…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedVallecorsa, Ada L.; deBettencourt, Laurie U. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1997
A study involving three males (age 13) with learning disabilities investigated the effectiveness of using story mapping for teaching elements of the story form. The instructional procedure positively affected the number of story elements included in students' recall of stories when they were explicitly taught to use it in reading. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Maps
Mendenhall, Susie B. – 1976
A personalized reading program for children in the elementary grades is described. The program consists of three interrelated parts: self-selection and sharing of books, skill development according to individual needs, and individual teacher-pupil discussion and evaluation conferences. Sustained silent reading, oral reading once a week to the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individualized Reading, Peer Acceptance
Peer reviewedMorrow, Lesley Mandel; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1990
Contrasts the effects of a storybook reading approach to traditional reading readiness approaches on the literacy development of urban at-risk kindergarten children. Finds that the storybook reading groups scored significantly higher on a variety of literacy measures. Finds no significant differences between the groups on standardized measures of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis
