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Direct linkTalya M. Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There have been minimal studies on tutoring programs that pair elementary students with teenage tutors (Jacob et al., 2016). Innovative tutoring programs are important as student reading achievement has declined since the onset of COVID-19 and school systems face instructional staff shortages. Through the lens of Self Determination Theory, this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Tutors, Attitudes, Elementary School Students
Kim, Woori; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia; Misquitta, Radhika – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2012
This review examined the effectiveness of critical factors in instruction for improving the reading comprehension of middle school students with learning disabilities. Five critical factors were identified: (i) type of instructional methods, (ii) self-monitoring, (iii) components of reading incorporated, (iv) fidelity of instruction (scripted vs.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Students
Finnegan, Elizabeth Grace – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The effects of two systematic methods of phonics instruction for children with significant cognitive disability were compared. Fifty-two participants, aged 5-12 years were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: (i) a synthetic phonics instruction, (ii) an analogy phonics instruction group, and (iii) a control group. Participants in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Control Groups, Phonics, Individual Instruction
Compton-Lilly, Catherine F. – Reading Teacher, 2009
A case study of one student is used to explore three instructional approaches that draw teachers' attention to reading as a social experience that involves culture and identity. These approaches draw on New Literacy Studies, children's media practices, and critical race theory and provide insights on how to better serve struggling readers.
Descriptors: Social Experience, Teaching Methods, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Accommodating Differences: Variations in Differentiated Literacy Instruction in Grade 2/3 Classrooms
Tobin, Ruthanne; McInnes, Alison – Literacy, 2008
Although teachers are acutely aware of variance in students' literacy needs, many are unsure exactly how to support these needs in the dynamic classroom. This study reports on compelling evidence from Grade 2/3 classrooms in which teachers differentiated instruction in a variety of ways to benefit all students. In particular, teachers provided…
Descriptors: Literacy, Grade 2, Reading Instruction, Individual Instruction
Download full textRobb, Laura – Instructor, 2008
Not too long ago, on a visit to two sixth-grade classrooms, the author saw very clearly the challenge teachers have before them when they try to differentiate reading. In both classrooms, 11-year-olds who read like fourth graders shared tables with classmates who read like the average ninth grader--a five-year span. How teachers approach this…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Classrooms, Grade 4, Reading Instruction
Moore, Claire; Lo, Lusa – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2008
An action research study was conducted using the Rainbow Dots strategy to evaluate its effectiveness on reading comprehension skills in a third-grade class with students both with and without a specific learning disability. Results of the study indicated that students' overall performances in reading comprehension have increased. Students also…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Action Research, Learning Disabilities, Inferences
Eggers, Edwin H. – 1970
Audiovisual aids are properly used in reading when they "turn students on," and they are abused when they fail to do so or when they actually "turn students off." General guidelines one could use in sorting usable from unusable aids are (1) Has the teacher saved time by using an audiovisual aid? (2) Is the aid appropriate to the sophistication…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Guidelines, Individual Instruction, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMason, George E.; Arthur, Sharon V. – Reading Horizons, 1980
Offers suggestions for systematizing over-the-shoulder reading conferences during class time. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individual Instruction, Reading Instruction, Student Teacher Relationship
Hocker, Mary Elsa – Elem Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individual Instruction, Low Achievement, Reading Difficulty
Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Tudor, Sarah – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
A total of 46 children in Grades 2 and 3 with low word-level skills were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups that received supplemental phonics-based reading instruction. One group received intervention October through March (21.5 hours), and one group served as a control from October through March and later received intervention March through May…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Fluency, Decoding (Reading), Grade 3
Peer reviewedMcGee, Lea M.; Tompkins, Gail E. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Suggests that videotapes of the teacher reading provides an easy independent activity for young children and also introduces them to many different types of story structures. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Individual Instruction, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Dinges, Rodney F. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not adult prison inmates reading below the third-grade level can significantly increase their reading level by the use of a tutor-student teaching method, supplemented by the use of flashcards. The subjects in this study were 10 functionally illiterate adult prison inmates, selected on a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Individual Instruction, Prisoners
Serwer, Blanche L.; Stolurow, Lawrence M. – Elem Engl, 1970
A description of computer program segments in the feasibility and development phase of Operationally Relevant Activities for Children's Language Experience (Project ORACLE); original form of this paper was prepared by Serwer for presentation to annual meeting of New England Research Association (1st, Boston College, June 5-6, 1969). (Authors/RD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Individual Instruction, Language Arts
BLYTH, JOHN W.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE PRONOUNS INTRODUCED IN LESSON 8 ARE REVIEWED THROUGH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. A DOUBLE QUESTION IS USED AND EXTENDED IN TWO SEPARATE FRAMES. THE FIRST QUESTION CONTAINS THE NEW WORD "WHO" AND IS SPOKEN BY A HELPER. AN EXAMPLE OF PRONOUN REVIEW IS "WHO IS THIS."--THE PICTURE DISPLAYS A THIN MAN IN A ROOM. "THIS IS THE…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Illiteracy
