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Direct linkAbadzi, Helen; Centanni, Tracy – Comparative Education Review, 2020
Dowd and Bartlett (2019) tested the reading competencies of second graders attending Save the Children programs in 11 countries. They used sixty-word passages and comprehension questions without time limits and analyzed data of students reading more than 10 words per minute. They found wide disparities in speed among those who showed high…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Reading programs for low-income populations often give disappointing results. Failures may be partly due to a neglect of practice in decoding letters. Visual stimuli are best learned symbol by symbol, with pattern analogies and much practice to unite smaller components and speed up identification. The prerequisite for comprehending volumes of text…
Descriptors: Poverty, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Reading Programs
