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Shhub, Aya – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A key characteristic of individuals with autism is communicative dysfunction. Specifically identifying the appropriate use of pragmatic skills such as phrasing and syntax. When looking at expressing phrasing (producing of word groups), communication research has highlighted a significant group difference between students with autism and typically…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Communication Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students
Judy Lynn Fields – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research has established a strong relationship between silent reading comprehension and prosodic reading fluency among young readers, but much remains unknown about this relationship among older readers (Breen, Kaswer, Van Dyke, Krivokapic, & Landi, 2016; Cypert & Petro, 2019). The goal of this study was to determine the impact of prosodic…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Intonation
Dornay, Margaret A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A single case design was used to investigate the impact of two types of instruction on middle school students' spelling. Phase 1 emphasized morphology awareness instruction (MAI) and phase 2 employed the addition of prosody awareness instruction (PAI). In order to compare the effects of MAI and PAI, spelling scores were gathered from eight…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Suprasegmentals
Stocks, Christopher Dion – ProQuest LLC, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Reading Instruction
Whittington, Marta – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Adolescent learners face a complexity of reading content they have never before encountered as they enter middle school and become independent in structuring their own academic frameworks. Some students become disconnected and unmotivated readers as school competes with their multiple reading lives. This study examined the use of choice along with…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Qualitative Research, Quasiexperimental Design
Moyer, Rodney Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed method study examined the use of repeated reading with eighteen, eighth grade special education and regular education students. The purpose was to study use of repeated reading's structured, systematic, oral reading intervention while also seeking to further analyze LaBerge and Samuels' "Theory of Automaticity"…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Grade 8, Special Education, Reading Instruction