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The Effects of Repeated Readings on the Reading Fluency and Comprehension for High School Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
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Vandenberg, Amy C.; Boon, Richard T.; Fore, Cecil, III; Bender, William N. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the efficacy of repeated readings on the oral reading fluency rate and reading comprehension accuracy of high school students with specific learning disabilities. The participants included three tenth and eleventh grade students with specific learning disabilities in a study skills resource…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Reading Strategies
Early Interventions for Children with Reading Problems: Study Designs and Preliminary Findings.
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Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
Describes preliminary results obtained from preventive, early intervention, and remediation studies with culturally diverse elementary students with significant reading problems. The effects of daily phonological awareness activities, a synthetic phonics approach, and explicit instruction in the alphabet are summarized. Ethnic differences in…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Early Intervention, Educational Strategies