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Direct linkAjayi, Eniola D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the impact of specific prereferral intervention strategies on the reduction of referrals to special education among identified 39 second-grade students from an elementary school in one public school district in New Jersey. A mixed research methodology incorporating quantitative and…
Descriptors: Prereferral Intervention, Observation, Rating Scales, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewedApplegate, Anthony J.; Applegate, Mary DeKonty – Reading Teacher, 2010
This study examined the motivation to read of children in grades two through six. All children in the study were strong in their literal comprehension of narrative text. Some were equally strong in their ability to respond thoughtfully to the text (Blue Group); others struggled to respond to questions requiring them to think about the implications…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Thinking Skills, Age Differences, Reading Motivation
Turner, Franklin Dickerson – Journal of Negro Education, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI) on improving reading fluency for an ethnically diverse sample of second-grade students. FORI incorporates the repeated reading of a grade-level text over the course of an academic week. This approach to reading uses scaffolding by expert readers. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, African American Students
Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Morris, Robin D.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Woo, Deborah Gee; Quirk, Matthew; Sevcik, Rose – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine short- and long-term effects of two instructional approaches designed to improve the reading fluency of second-grade children: Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (or FORI; Stahl & Heubach, 2005) and a wide reading approach (Kuhn et al., 2006). By the end of second grade, children in the wide reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Grade 2, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Wisenbaker, Joseph M.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Strauss, Gregory P.; Morris, Robin D. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
The goals of this study were to (a) develop an empirically based model regarding the development of fluent and automatic reading in the early elementary school years and (b) determine whether fluent text-reading skills provided benefits for reading comprehension beyond those accounted for by fluent word decoding. First-, second-, and third-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Fluency, Elementary Education, Reading Skills
