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John Z. Strong; Blythe E. Anderson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of an 18-day summer tutoring program in which graduate student tutors delivered 15 minutes of differentiated reading instruction (DRI) and a 30-minute interactive read-aloud (IRA) lesson each day. Students in grades K-5 (N = 179) attending a summer program at one urban elementary school…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students
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Crawford-Garrett, Katherine; Perez, Michelle; Short, Amanda Y. – Teaching Education, 2017
This article traces the experiences of two veteran elementary school teachers in the urban Southwest, who are positioned by district and state policy "texts" as insubordinate and failing, and who employ critical literacy practices to reconstruct and redesign these texts as they seek to create more equitable and humane conditions in…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Social Change, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Wallot, Sebastian; O'Brien, Beth A.; Haussmann, Anna; Kloos, Heidi; Lyby, Marlene S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Reading speed is commonly used as an index of reading fluency. However, reading speed is not a consistent predictor of text comprehension, when speed and comprehension are measured on the same text within the same reader. This might be due to the somewhat ambiguous nature of reading speed, which is sometimes regarded as a feature of the reading…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes