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Long-Term Effects of Strategic Reading Instruction in the Intermediate Elementary Grades
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Droop, Mienke; van Elsäcker, Willy; Voeten, Marinus J. M.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of a program that offered sustained strategic reading instruction on reading abilities of third and fourth graders. The study was conducted among 1,469 children from 40 schools in the Netherlands. Schools were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group. Multilevel…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Language Proficiency and Reading Ability in First- and Second-Language Learners.
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Droop, Mienke; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2003
Uses structural equation modeling to investigate the development of and interrelations between the language proficiencies and reading abilities of children learning to read a first or second language. Compares the reading-comprehension, word-decoding, and oral-language skills of Dutch and minority third and fourth grade students. Shows oral…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Dutch, Elementary Education, Grade 3