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Gray, Susan H.; Ehri, Linnea C.; Locke, John L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
A randomized control trial compared the effects of two kinds of vocabulary instruction on component reading skills of adult struggling readers. Participants seeking alternative high school diplomas received 8 h of scripted tutoring to learn forty academic vocabulary words embedded within a civics curriculum. They were matched for language…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary, Reading Skills, High School Equivalency Programs