Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 5 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
| Grade 9 | 6 |
| Reading Comprehension | 6 |
| Adolescents | 4 |
| High School Students | 4 |
| Intervention | 4 |
| Program Effectiveness | 4 |
| Reading Difficulties | 4 |
| Reading Fluency | 4 |
| English Language Learners | 3 |
| Grade 10 | 3 |
| Reading Instruction | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Grantee Submission | 1 |
| Journal of Educational… | 1 |
| Journal of Educational… | 1 |
| Learning Disability Quarterly | 1 |
| Reading & Writing Quarterly | 1 |
| Scientific Studies of Reading | 1 |
Author
| Vaughn, Sharon | 4 |
| Williams, Kelly J. | 3 |
| Barnes, Marcia A. | 2 |
| Francis, David J. | 2 |
| Martinez, Leticia R. | 2 |
| Miciak, Jeremy | 2 |
| Roberts, Greg | 2 |
| Ahmed, Yusra | 1 |
| Barth, Amy | 1 |
| Cho, Eunsoo | 1 |
| Fall, Anna-Maria | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 6 |
| Journal Articles | 5 |
Education Level
| Grade 9 | 5 |
| High Schools | 5 |
| Junior High Schools | 5 |
| Middle Schools | 5 |
| Secondary Education | 5 |
| Grade 10 | 2 |
| Grade 7 | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Texas | 6 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests | 6 |
| Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 3 |
| Test of Word Reading… | 2 |
| Gray Oral Reading Test | 1 |
| Kaufman Brief Intelligence… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 1 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
| Does not meet standards | 1 |
Peer reviewed
Direct linkSolis, Michael; Vaughn, Sharon; Stillman-Spisak, Stephanie J.; Cho, Eunsoo – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
This experimental study examined the efficacy of a multicomponent reading intervention compared to a business-as-usual comparison condition on the reading comprehension and content area vocabulary outcomes of adolescent students with low reading comprehension. We randomly assigned 9th-grade students with low reading comprehension to a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Intervention, Grade 9
Vaughn, Sharon; Martinez, Leticia R.; Williams, Kelly J.; Miciak, Jeremy; Fall, Anna-Mária; Roberts, Greg – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
This study examined the effects of Reading Intervention for Adolescents, a 2-year extensive reading intervention targeting current and former English learners identified as struggling readers based on their performance on the state accountability assessment. Students who enrolled at three participating urban high schools were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Programs, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties
Download full textWilliams, Kelly J.; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
English learners with learning disabilities (LD) have well-documented difficulties comprehending text. This study examined the effects of an intensive reading intervention (Reading Intervention for Adolescents [RIA]) on reading outcomes (word reading, vocabulary, and comprehension) for ninth-grade ELs with LD (n = 85). In the RIA, students…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities
Vaughn, Sharon; Martinez, Leticia R.; Williams, Kelly J.; Miciak, Jeremy; Fall, Anna-Maria; Roberts, Greg – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study examined the effects of Reading Intervention for Adolescents, a 2-year extensive reading intervention targeting current and former English learners identified as struggling readers based on their performance on the state accountability assessment. Students who enrolled at three participating urban high schools were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Programs, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties
Wolters, Christopher A.; Barnes, Marcia A.; Kulesz, Paulina A.; York, Mary; Francis, David J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors' purpose was to examine adolescents' reading motivation in relation to standardized assessments of reading comprehension and fluency. After a reading pretest, 60 ninth-grade students (M age = 14.9 years) were randomly assigned to two groups. Compared to those in the control condition, those administered brief oral feedback intended to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Motivation, Adolescents
Barnes, Marcia A.; Ahmed, Yusra; Barth, Amy; Francis, David J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
The integration of knowledge during reading was tested in 1,109 secondary school students. Reading times for the second sentence in a pair (Jane's headache went away) were compared in conditions where the first sentence was either causally or temporally related to the first sentence (Jane took an aspirin vs. Jane looked for an aspirin).…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Grade 7, Grade 8
