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Direct linkMusti, Shobana; Smith, Jesslyn M.; Begeny, John C. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Text reading fluency is an important reading goal for all students. Students with a known reading disability often need systematic and evidence-based instructional supports to reach grade-level benchmarks in fluency. A recent focus on high-impact tutoring practices has given attention to the virtual or remote implementation of programs. This…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Tutorial Programs, Reading Improvement, Reading Fluency
Begeny, John C.; Levy, Rebecca A.; Field, Stacey A. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2018
Reading fluency is necessary for reading comprehension, but approximately 40% of U.S. fourth-grade students have inadequate reading fluency skills. Because small-group (SG) instruction is often used as a first line of intervention for struggling readers, SG instruction targeting deficiencies in text reading fluency ought to be part of every…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Reading Improvement, Reading Fluency, Reading Skills
Begeny, John C.; Yeager, Abigail; Martinez, Rebecca S. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2012
This study compared children's Spanish reading performance across 2 reading intervention conditions: small group versus individual (teacher-student). Six second-grade Costa Rican students with low Spanish reading ability participated in the study. An alternating-treatments design was used to compare the relative effectiveness of the 2…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Reading Improvement, Program Effectiveness
Mitchell, Courtney; Begeny, John C. – School Psychology Review, 2014
Parent tutoring offers potential as a means for assisting the large percentage of students who need to improve their reading skills. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a reading fluency intervention program when used by parents in the home during the summer months. Specifically, this study evaluated the effects of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Begeny, John C.; Krouse, Hailey E.; Ross, Sarah G.; Mitchell, R. Courtney – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2009
Although reading fluency is one of the five essential early-reading skills students must develop, many elementary-aged students in the United States do not read age-appropriate material fluently. As such, small-group interventions are practical and often more time efficient than individualized interventions aimed to address this problem. However,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students
Begeny, John C.; Silber, Jennifer M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
Reading fluency has been described as one of the essential ingredients for ensuring that students become successful readers. Unfortunately, a large number of elementary-aged students in this country do not fluently read age-appropriate material. Because of this, small-group interventions are practical and more time efficient than individualized…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Reading Improvement, Intervention
Begeny, John C.; Martens, Brian K. – School Psychology Review, 2006
Nearly 40% of America's fourth-grade students are below the basic level in reading. Creating opportunities for practice to build reading accuracy and speed (i.e., fluency) is an important link between word decoding and passage comprehension. The purpose of this study was to combine several empirically validated reading interventions into an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Standardized Tests, Reading Improvement
