The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the effects of repeated reading on readers identified as below grade in sixth and seventh grade. The study was set in a rural middle school located in the foothills of North Carolina. Students selected for the study were identified utilizing Lexile levels to identify them as below grade level for…

This study examined the impact of two variations of repeated reading on the fluency and comprehension of 173 sixth-grade students at a rural middle school. Students were randomly assigned to one of two repeated reading groups that focused on either improved reading rate or prosody and a comparison group that engaged in an equivalent amount of wide…

This study examined the effects of repeated reading using above grade level narrative passages on: (a) reading rate as measured in words per minute (wpm) and (b) reading miscues. A single group, pretest-posttest design was used to measure the treatment effects. The study group consisted of 11, sixth grade African-American students with learning…