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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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Liu, Jun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2004
This article reports the results of an experiment investigating the role of comic strips on ESL learners' reading comprehension. The students' proficiency levels were estimated, and students were organized into a low intermediate-level proficiency group (low-level students) and a high intermediate-level proficiency group (high-level students).…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cartoons, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)