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Grünke, Matthias – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
Many children with different kinds of learning problems struggle with reading. To help them combat their challenges, easy-to-implement interventions are needed. Reading racetracks have proven to be effective tools to increase sight word fluency in students with disabilities. The purpose of this single-case study was to evaluate this technique, for…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Sight Method, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Hayes, Christopher – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2017
Students with disabilities, like their economically disadvantaged counterparts, experience lower expectations and less demand for academic success from teachers. Students who experience both disabilities and social and economic disabilities may experience even less rigorous expectations from their teachers who experience only one condition or the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties
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Spidell, Tammie F.; Latty, Jayne – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2018
In a test-driven educational environment, teachers see a great need for more engaging resources that produce the literacy results needed for students to thrive academically. In 2015, The National Assessment of Educational Progress reported that only 36% of fourth graders scored at or above the Proficient level of reading. This statistic was…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Preschool Children
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January, Stacy-Ann A.; Lovelace, Mary E.; Foster, Tori E.; Ardoin, Scott P. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
Strategic Incremental Rehearsal (SIR) is a recently developed flashcard intervention that blends Traditional Drill with Incremental Rehearsal (IR) for teaching sight words. The initial study evaluating SIR found it was more effective than IR for teaching sight words to first-grade students. However, that study failed to assess efficiency, which is…
Descriptors: Intervention, Visual Stimuli, Drills (Practice), Word Recognition
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Erwin, Robin W., Jr. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2016
For learners who need sight-word practice, including young students and struggling readers, digital flash cards may promote automatic word recognition when used as a supplemental activity to regular reading instruction. A novel use of common presentation software efficiently supports this practice strategy.
Descriptors: Sight Method, Sight Vocabulary, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
Humbert, Mary Beth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Beginning readers and struggling readers need explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics (Adams, 2008; Ehri,1992, 1998; Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, & Yaghoub-Zadeh, 2001; Gaskins et al., 1997; Moats, 2004; Morris, 2015; National Reading Panel, 2000; Reutzel, 2015). Ehri and McCormick's (2008) phases of word learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Grade 1, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Yaw, Jared; Skinner, Christopher H.; Delisle, Jean; Skinner, Amy L.; Maurer, Kristin; Cihak, David; Wilhoit, Brian; Booher, Joshua – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
Working with elementary students with disabilities, we used alternating treatment designs to evaluate and compare the effects of 2 computer-based flash card sight-word reading interventions, 1 with 1-s response intervals and another with 5-s response intervals. In Study 1, we held instructional time constant, applying both interventions for 3?min.…
Descriptors: Sight Method, Teaching Methods, Disabilities, Elementary School Students
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Alnahdi, Ghaleb Hamad – International Education Studies, 2015
A systematic review of the literature related to instructional strategies to improve reading skills for students with intellectual disabilities was conducted. Studies reviewed were within three categories; early reading approaches, comprehensive approaches, and one method approach. It was concluded that students with intellectual disabilities are…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Reading Instruction, Literature Reviews, Teaching Methods
Raines, Jessie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The intent of this qualitative case study was to take an in-depth look at the perceived benefit or lack thereof of a programmed reading curriculum for students with moderate cognitive disabilities within a Title 1 inner-city school. The rationale for the study was that students with moderate cognitive disabilities have difficulties learning to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes, Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Ayala, Sandra M.; O'Connor, Rollanda – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2013
Ten first grade students who had responded poorly to a Tier 2 reading intervention in a response to intervention (RTI) model received an intervention of video self-modeling to improve decoding skills and sight word recognition. Students were video recorded blending and segmenting decodable words and reading sight words. Videos were edited and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Intervention
Sweat, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Students exhibiting speech deficits may not have the appropriate skills or support structures necessary to obtain adequate or acceptable literacy development as mixed results from past research have indicated that some students with speech impairments have the capacity to gain appropriate literacy skills. The purpose of the qualitative holistic…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Parent Attitudes
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Reed, Deborah K. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
This study sought to determine the effects of explicit phonics instruction and sight word instruction on the letter-sound identification and word reading of 13- to 15-year-old English language learners in the eighth grade who were identified as having intellectual disabilities (ID). Using a randomized single-subject design, four Hispanic students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Flowers, Claudia; Baker, Joshua – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a multicomponent early literacy curriculum that included phonics and phonemic awareness in comparison to a sight word approach. A total of 93 students with severe developmental disabilities who were enrolled in Grades K through 4 were randomly assigned to either a multicomponent early literacy curriculum…
Descriptors: Phonics, Sight Vocabulary, Developmental Disabilities, Phonemic Awareness
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Faust, Miriam; Kandelshine-Waldman, Osnat – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study used two letter detection tasks, the classic missing letter effect paradigm and a single word versus familiar word compound version of this paradigm, to study bottom-up and top-down processes involved in reading in normally achieving as compared to low achieving elementary school readers. The research participants were children…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Models, Word Recognition, Reading Instruction
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Burnett, John – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
Although the recent publication of the Rose Report appears to draw a line in the sand that privileges synthetic phonics over other methods in the UK, history indicates a pendulum swing of preference between whole-word and phonics since the advent of mass education. Suggesting that the current "victory" for exponents of synthetic phonics…
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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