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Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Daniel, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This exploratory study was designed to evaluate the interplay of students' rate and comprehension in independent silent reading of accessible text, within the frameworks of the Simple View of Reading and the RAND Reading Study Group. In the first phase, 61 sixth graders were given a reading test (GRADE), a motivation questionnaire, and an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Reading Rate, Correlation
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Kumar, Uttam; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) to study neural implications of silent reading of words in mutually comprehensible but visually and orthographically distinct languages for example Hindi and Urdu by independent groups of skilled readers. The fMRI results (conjunction analyses) showed the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
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Reed, Deborah K.; Swanson, Elizabeth; Petscher, Yaacov; Vaughn, Sharon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Teacher read-alouds (TRA) are common in middle and high school content area classes. Because the practice of reading the textbook out loud to students is often used out of concern about students' ability to understand and learn from text when reading silently (SR), this randomized controlled trial was designed to experimentally manipulate text…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, High School Students, Reading Aloud to Others, United States History