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Dully, Melanie – 1989
A study investigated whether 19 at-risk fifth-grade students would benefit from using Sustained Silent Reading. Ten students were exposed to 15 minutes of Sustained Silent Reading at least four times a week over the course of a school year, while nine students were not. All students were administered a pre- and post- self-concept inventory and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades
Download full textKagan, Susan C. – 2001
This study examined the effects of background classical music on silent reading in a sixth grade class, in order to determine the amount and type of influence it would have on the reader's written response to what was read. Thirty-four suburban sixth graders from two history classes were selected for this study. The data was obtained over a period…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Journal Writing
Nardella-Rodriguez, Josephine – 1991
A study examined whether oral, silent, or choral reading would affect reading comprehension. Subjects were 22 heterogeneously grouped third grade students. Two groups of 11 subjects were assigned to each of the following three samples during a three week period: (1) oral reading; (2) silent reading; and (3) choral reading. To analyze results,…
Descriptors: Choral Speaking, Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Oral Reading
Minichiello-Schmidt, Katherine – 1998
A study hypothesized that auditory input does not increase the comprehension of students. Forty Basic Skills English students in a suburban high school were identified for this study. They were grouped according to class section and assigned randomly to treatments. Two of the sections read narrative and persuasive/argument texts silently and were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Armstrong, Noreen; Campos, Julie; Johnson, Barb – 2001
This report describes a program for increasing reading fluency through the implementation of leveled books. The elementary students of the three targeted regular education classes exhibit low fluency rates which impedes them from becoming independent readers. Evidence for the existence of the problem includes words read per minute on a grade level…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
McDaniel, Ruth Rogers – 1983
A psycholinguistic analysis of oral reading miscue substitutions and of silent reading cloze substitutions was used to compare five dimensions of the oral and silent reading processes: grammatical function, syntactic acceptability, semantic acceptability, meaning loss, and correction. Subjects were third and sixth grade students with high,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
