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Sokal, Laura; Thiem, Cassandra; Crampton, Amanda; Katz, Herb – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
This study examined the effects of the gender of reading tutors on 173 third and fourth grade mainly inner-city boys identified as struggling readers. Reading achievement ("Alberta Diagnostic Reading Program") and reader self-perceptions ("Readers' Self-Perception Scale") were monitored over a 22-week reading intervention.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Lovett, Maureen W.; De Palma, Maria; Frijters, Jan; Steinbach, Karen; Temple, Meredith; Benson, Nancy; Lacerenza, Lea – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
This article explores whether struggling readers from different primary language backgrounds differ in response to phonologically based remediation. Following random assignment to one of three reading interventions or to a special education reading control program, reading and reading-related outcomes of 166 struggling readers were assessed…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Oral Language, Language Impairments