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Zvoch, Keith; Stevens, Joseph J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2013
This field-based randomized trial examined the effect of assignment to and participation in summer school for two moderately at-risk samples of struggling readers. Application of multiple regression models to difference scores capturing the change in summer reading fluency revealed that kindergarten students randomly assigned to summer school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Control Groups, Reading Fluency, Summer Schools
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Apthorp, Helen; Randel, Bruce; Cherasaro, Trudy; Clark, Tedra; McKeown, Margaret; Beck, Isabel – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
A cluster randomized trial estimated the effects of a supplemental vocabulary program, Elements of Reading[R]: vocabulary on student vocabulary and passage comprehension in moderate- to high-poverty elementary schools. Forty-four schools participated over a period spanning 2 consecutive school years. At baseline, 1,057 teachers and 16,471 students…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Programs, Written Language
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Therrien, William J.; Wickstrom, Katherine; Jones, Kevin – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
Research was conducted to ascertain if a combined repeated reading and question generation intervention was effective at improving the reading achievement of fourth through eighth grade students with learning disabilities or who were at risk for reading failure. Students were assigned to a treatment or control group via a stratified random…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness