ERIC Number: ED577202
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 185
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-0-3551-3380-6
ISSN: EISSN-
EISSN: N/A
Reading with Ease: The Impact of an Oral Reading Fluency Intervention with Adolescent Struggling Readers
Van Wig, Ann
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wyoming
The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to investigate the impact of a repeated reading fluency intervention focused on prosody, counterbalanced with an intervention focused on reading strategies. Both of these interventions were designed to promote feelings of achievement through participation in activities intended to promote reading success. Seventeen eighth grade students identified as requiring reading intervention were divided into A-Day and B-Day classes. All 17 students received the interventions but in alternating seven-week phases. The repeated reading fluency intervention employed recording and reflecting of children's books as students metacognitively reflected upon the fluency components of rate, accuracy, and prosody. The study compared the results between A-Day and B-Day students using a repeated measures design using ANOVA. The repeated measures fluency intervention examined outcomes on measures of the Gray Oral Reading Test-Fifth Edition raw scores of rate and accuracy, the Comprehensive Oral Reading Fluency Scale that measured rate, accuracy, and prosody, and Multidimensional Fluency Scale that measured prosody. In addition, students responded to questions regarding perceptions of reading ability and behaviors using the Impression of My Reading survey. Results suggested the fluency intervention focused on prosody was effective in improving prosodic ability, but inconclusive on the improvements on the fluency components of rate and accuracy. Results also indicated students had improved perceptions of their reading ability and behaviors after participation in reading interventions designed to promote student reading success. Future research recommendations include extension of reading material to include graphic novels and to incorporate writing and subsequent reading of student created stories, plays, and poems. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Fluency, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Grade 8, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness, Childrens Literature, Reflection, Reading Rate, Accuracy, Suprasegmentals, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Oral Reading, Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Student Attitudes, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Grade 8
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Gray Oral Reading Test
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