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Case, Lisa Pericola; Speece, Deborah L.; Silverman, Rebecca; Ritchey, Kristen D.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Cooper, David H.; Montanaro, Elizabeth; Jacobs, Dawn – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
This experimental study was designed to validate a short-term supplemental reading intervention for at-risk first-grade children. Although substantial research on long-term supplemental reading interventions exists, less is known about short-term interventions. Thirty first-grade children were randomly assigned to intervention or control…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, At Risk Students, Reading Skills
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Hines, Sara J.; Speece, Deborah L.; Walker, Caroline Y.; DaDeppo, Lisa M. W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
We conducted two case studies to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized remedial reading instruction linked to direct measures of student learning and transfer. The participants were two first grade children at serious risk of reading failure. The instruction targeted decoding of one syllable short vowel words and first emphasized…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Remedial Reading, Phonemes, Reading Failure
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Speece, Deborah L.; Ritchey, Kristen D. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the development of oral reading fluency in a sample of first-grade children. Using growth curve analysis, models of growth were identified for a combined sample of at-risk (AR) and not-at-risk (NAR) children, and predictors of growth were identified for the longitudinal AR sample in first and second grade.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Word Recognition, Reading Failure