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Austin, Christy R.; Boucher, Alexis N. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
Despite strong theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting that word meaning knowledge plays a critical role in word reading, interventions for students with word reading difficulties and disabilities frequently target word reading instruction in isolation. This article connects reading theory to practice by describing one approach to integrate…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
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Filderman, Marissa J.; Austin, Christy R.; Boucher, Alexis N.; O'Donnell, Katherine; Swanson, Elizabeth A. – Exceptional Children, 2022
Informed by theories of reading comprehension and prior reviews of reading comprehension intervention, this meta-analysis uniquely contributes to the literature because it describes the relative effects of various approaches to comprehension intervention for struggling readers in Grades 3 through 12. Findings from 64 studies demonstrate…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Achievement
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Austin, Christy R.; Vaughn, Sharon; Clemens, Nathan H.; Pustejovsky, James E.; Boucher, Alexis N. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
This within-subjects experimental study investigated the relative effects of word reading and word meaning instruction (WR+WM) compared to word-reading instruction alone (WR) on the accuracy, fluency, and word meaning knowledge of 4th-5th graders with dyslexia. We matched word lists on syllables, phonemes, frequency, number of definitions, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy