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Pullen, Paige C.; Lane, Holly B. – Exceptionality, 2014
We compared the effects of two approaches to decoding on the word reading skills of struggling first-grade students: decontextualized, teacher directed decoding practice with manipulative letters and embedded, incidental decoding practice. Participants were 98 students at risk for reading disability. We randomly assigned participants to three…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Instruction, Word Recognition, Grade 1
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Doughty, Adam H.; Saunders, Kathryn J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
Two men with intellectual disabilities initially demonstrated intermediate accuracy in two-choice matching-to-sample (MTS) procedures. A printed-letter identity MTS procedure was used with 1 participant, and a spoken-to-printed-word MTS procedure was used with the other participant. Errors decreased substantially under a delayed-sample procedure,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mental Retardation, Intervals, Sample Size
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Nanda, Alice O.; Greenberg, Daphne; Morris, Robin – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
This study examined whether measurement constructs behind reading-related tests for struggling adult readers are similar to what is known about measurement constructs for children. The sample included 371 adults reading between the third-and fifth-grade levels, including 127 men and 153 English speakers of other languages. Using measures of skills…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Factor Analysis
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Gottardo, Alexandra; Mueller, Julie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
First-language (L1) and 2nd-language (L2) oral language skills and L2 word reading were used as predictors to test the simple view of reading as a model of 2nd-language reading comprehension. The simple view of reading states that reading comprehension is related to decoding and oral language comprehension skills. One hundred thirty-one…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness