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Cervetti, Gina N.; Fitzgerald, Miranda S.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Hebert, Michael – Reading Psychology, 2023
We report on a meta-analysis designed to test the theory that instruction that involves direct teaching of academic vocabulary and teaching strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words develops students' abilities to infer new words' meanings and builds students' overall vocabulary knowledge. We meta-analyzed 39 experimental and…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Direct Instruction
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Annemarie Murphy; Joanne Arciuli – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Digital literacy instruction is increasingly common in contemporary practices and can accommodate learners with a range of needs. This systematic review explores the use and effects of technology during reading comprehension instruction involving school-aged children learning English as an additional language (EAL). Our aim was to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Muhid, Abdul; Amalia, Eka Rizki; Hilaliyah, Hilda; Budiana, Nia; Wajdi, Muh Barid Nizarudin – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
Metacognitive strategies are known to be important in improving reading achievement. This study investigated whether there was any significant difference on students' reading comprehension achievement score by using metacognitive strategies and investigated what metacognitive strategies implemented on students' reading comprehension achieving. All…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement
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Hudson, Alida; Koh, Poh Wee; Moore, Karol A.; Binks-Cantrell, Emily – Education Sciences, 2020
Oral reading fluency (ORF) deficits are a hallmark of reading difficulties. The impact of fluency struggles extends beyond word-level difficulties to include deficits in reading comprehension. Sixteen empirical studies conducted in 2000-2019 that examined ORF interventions among elementary students identified as having reading difficulties were…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Elementary School Students, Intervention
Talbert, Summer K. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Integrating reading instruction and content area curriculum has been suggested as a method of improving students' reading comprehension and access to content knowledge. Less clear are the specific practices that should be used across the curriculum to improve comprehension and build knowledge simultaneously. The two studies in this dissertation…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
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Berkeley, Sheri; Larsen, Anna – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2018
Thirty years of intervention research on the effects of reading comprehension strategies for students with learning disabilities was reviewed in this quantitative synthesis. Specifically, researchers targeted studies that contained self-regulated learning components. A systematic search yielded 18 studies from nine research journals that met…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Intervention
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Okkinga, Mariska; van Steensel, Roel; van Gelderen, Amos J. S.; van Schooten, Erik; Sleegers, Peter J. C.; Arends, Lidia R. – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
Research has demonstrated that in controlled experiments in which small groups are being tutored by researchers, reading-strategy instruction is highly effective in fostering reading comprehension (Palincsar & Brown, "Cognition and Instruction," 1(2), 117-175, 1984). It is unclear, however, whether reading-strategy interventions are…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Meta Analysis
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Grünke, Matthias; Leidig, Tatjana – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
This single-case study tested a peer tutoring model using a visualizing strategy (story mapping) to teach struggling students better text comprehension. Three teams each consisting of a tutor and a tutee attending a fourth-grade general education classroom participated in the experiment. A short series of observations was carried out before and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Case Studies, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
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Ning, Bo; Van Damme, Jan; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Gielen, Sarah; Bellens, Kim; Dupriez, Vincent; Dumay, Xavier – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
In the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment, the Flemish community of Belgium outscored its French community in reading, with low achievers accounting for a large proportion of the score gaps. In this study, between-community comparisons based on the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method showed that the Flemish community benefits…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Skills, Foreign Countries