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McCracken, Thomas B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A student's economic status can have a significant impact on reading achievement. Students classified as low-socioeconomic-status (low-SES) have been traditionally at risk for reading failure. With the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) schools are required to use strategies and practices that have evidence supporting their effectiveness in…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Low Income Groups, Socioeconomic Status
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Deno, Stanley L.; Reschly, Amy L.; Lembke, Erica S.; Magnusson, Deanne; Callender, Stacy A.; Windram, Holly; Stachel, Nancy – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
This article describes the development of a process for universal screening and progress monitoring in reading at the elementary level that can be used in a school-wide Response to Intervention (RtI) model. University personnel worked with teachers and administration at an urban elementary school to develop and implement the model in response to a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Oral Reading, Scoring, Educational Change
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has increased the role of assessment in K-12 education. Designed to ensure that all students meet high academic standards, the law currently requires states receiving Title I funds to test all children annually in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and report student performance disaggregated by poverty,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Grade 4
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2004
This technical report provides data on the extent to which progress monitoring measures explain reading achievement. The four progress monitoring measures discussed are: letter sounding, phonemic segmentation, oral reading fluency, and comprehension given in either oral or written form. These measures were administered to first grade students in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Phonemics