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Examining the Construct of Reading among Dysfluent Urban Children: A Factor Analysis Approach
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Pierce, Margaret; Katzir, Tami; Wolf, Maryanne; Noam, Gil – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
This study reports on an examination of the factor structure underlying reading performance in a sample of urban, dysfluent children. Participants were 140 second and third graders identified as exhibiting reading difficulties stemming from inefficient word and/or nonword reading. Consistent with a more complex view of reading, the results of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Structural Equation Models, Factor Structure, Identification
Phonological Awareness and Rapid Naming Skills of Children with Reading Disabilities and Children with Reading Disabilities Who Are at Risk for Mathematics Difficulties
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Wise, Justin C.; Pae, Hye Kyeong; Wolfe, Christopher B.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D.; Lovett, Maureen; Wolf, Maryanne – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
Limited research has examined the skills of children with a reading disability (RD) and children with RD and a mathematics disability (MD). Even less research has examined the phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) skills in these two groups of children and how these skills relate to reading and math achievement.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Classification, Urban Schools
The Growth of Phonological Awareness by Children with Reading Disabilities: A Result of Semantic Knowledge or Knowledge of Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences?
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Wise, Justin C.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Wolf, Maryanne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2007
According to the Lexical Restructuring Model (Metsala & Walley, 1998), children move from holistic representations of words, to syllabic representations, and finally to phonemic representations through a restructuring process driven by their developing lexical base. In contrast, the psycholinguistic grain size theory put forth by Ziegler and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Phonemes, Reading Skills
The Relationship among Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, Pre-Reading Skills, Word Identification Skills, and Reading Comprehension by Children with Reading Disabilities
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Wise, Justin C.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Wolf, Maryanne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: Some researchers (F. R. Vellutino, F. M. Scanlon, & M. S. Tanzman, 1994) have argued that the different domains comprising language (e.g., phonology, semantics, and grammar) may influence reading development in a differential manner and at different developmental periods. The purpose of this study was to examine proposed causal…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language, Language Skills
Clusters of Second and Third Grade Dysfluent Urban Readers
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Pierce, Margaret E.; Katzir, Tami; Wolf, Maryanne; Noam, Gil G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
This study examined the heterogeneity within a sample of 140 urban second and third graders identified as at-risk for reading failure due to inefficient word and/or nonword reading. Cluster analyses were conducted using standardized factor scores from a four-factor structural equation model characterizing reading performance in this sample. These…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Factor Analysis, Grade 3
Reading Fluency: The Whole Is More than the Parts
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Katzir, Tami; Kim, Youngsuk; Wolf, Maryanne; O'Brien, Beth; Kennedy, Becky; Lovett, Maureen; Morris, Robin – Annals of Dyslexia, 2006
This study examined the relative contributions of phonological awareness, orthographic pattern recognition, and rapid letter naming to fluent word and connected-text reading within a dyslexic sample of 123 children in second and third grades. Participants were assessed on a variety of fluency measures and reading subskills. Correlations and…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Fluency, Reading Difficulties, Pattern Recognition