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Washburn, Jocelyn – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
In this article, I systematically review evidence on the relations between oral reading fluency (ORF) and reading comprehension (RC) for adolescents with limited reading proficiency (ALRP) in Grades 6 to12. I organized findings from 23 studies into five themes: (a) unclear role of ORF in the simple view of reading model for ALRP, (b) ALRP have…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Correlation, Adolescents
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Wood, Sarah G.; Moxley, Jerad H.; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Wagner, Richard K. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Text-to-speech and related read-aloud tools are being widely implemented in an attempt to assist students' reading comprehension skills. Read-aloud software, including text-to-speech, is used to translate written text into spoken text, enabling one to listen to written text while reading along. It is not clear how effective text-to-speech is at…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Assistive Technology, Meta Analysis
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Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Walker, Melodee A.; Vaughn, Sharon – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Fluent word reading is hypothesized to facilitate reading comprehension by improving automatic word reading, thus releasing a reader's cognitive resources to focus on meaning. Many students with learning disabilities (LD) struggle to develop reading fluency, which affects reading comprehension. This synthesis extends Chard, Vaughn, and Tyler's…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities
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Tunmer, William; Greaney, Keith – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
In 2007, the New Zealand Ministry of Education formally recognized the condition of dyslexia for the first time and has subsequently developed a working definition of the condition. The aim of this article is to draw on contemporary theory and research on reading development, reading difficulties, and reading intervention to describe what the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Definitions
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Gajria, Meenakshi; Jitendra, Asha K.; Sood, Sheetal; Sacks, Gabriell – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
This article summarizes the findings of research studies designed to improve the comprehension of expository text for students with learning disabilities. Twenty-nine studies were located that met the inclusion criteria. Interventions gleaned from the review were categorized as content enhancement (i.e., advance and graphic organizers, visual…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, Intervention