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Exploring Dispositions toward Online Reading: Analyzing the Survey of Online Reading Attitudes and Behaviors
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Putman, S. Michael – Reading Psychology, 2014
The Internet is having a profound impact on the literacy practices of today's students. Acknowledging the complex processes associated with reading online, the Survey of Online Reading Attitudes and Behaviors (SORAB) was created to further our understandings in this area. A factor analysis revealed the instrument included five factors that…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Publishing, Reading Habits, Factor Analysis
Improving the Reading Performance of Fifth-Grade Students through an Afterschool Reading Program
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Joseph, Rosnel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This applied dissertation was designed to evaluate improving the reading performance of fifth-grade students through an afterschool reading program to determine whether it was effective in teaching Native American and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). This study compared the reading performance of fifth-grade students who struggle…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs, American Indians, Observation
Summer Reading: Predicting Adolescent Word Learning from Aptitude, Time Spent Reading, and Text Type
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Lawrence, Joshua Fahey – Reading Psychology, 2009
Mostly low-income African American and Hispanic teens (N = 192) were tested in (a) passage comprehension, (b) vocabulary ability, (c) cloze task performance, and (d) listening comprehension in the spring and vocabulary in the fall. Students were surveyed about reading (a) narrative, (b) expository, (c) teen culture, and (d) online texts.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Profiles, African Americans
Accelerated Reader[TM]. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
"Accelerated Reader"[TM] is a guided reading intervention used to supplement regular reading instruction in K-12 classrooms. Its aim is to improve students' reading skills through reading practice and quizzes on the books students read. The "Accelerated Reader"[TM] program calls for students to select and read a book and then…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Software
Reading Comprehension Improvement with Individualized Cognitive Profiles and Metacognition
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Allen, Kathleen D.; Hancock, Thomas E. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
This study models improving classroom reading instruction through valid assessment and individualized metacomprehension. Individualized cognitive profiles of Woodcock-Johnson III cognitive abilities correlated with reading comprehension were used during classroom independent reading for judgments of learning, feedback, self-reflection, and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Independent Reading, Informal Reading Inventories
Using Enrichment Reading Practices to Increase Reading Fluency, Comprehension, and Attitudes
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Reis, Sally M.; Eckert, Rebecca D.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Jacobs, Joan K.; Coyne, Michael – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors used a randomized design to investigate the effects of an enriched reading program, Schoolwide Enrichment Reading Model (SEM-R), with blocks of independent reading on oral reading fluency (ORF), reading comprehension, and attitudes toward reading for students in Grades 3-5. The authors used SEM-R in comparison with basal reading…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Independent Reading