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Brandes, Gilad; Evanhaim, Naama; Dalal-Zarotski, Shani; Levie, Ronit; Patael, Smadar; Hora, Anat; Bar-On, Amalia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Studies have shown that dialogic instruction can promote reading comprehension, but its contribution to lower-level skills like reading fluency is not as well understood. The paper reports on a dialogically oriented small group intervention for struggling second-grade Hebrew readers, targeting both comprehension and fluency. Rather than top-down…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Shamir, Haya; Johnson, Erin Phinney – Educational Media International, 2012
This paper presents an effectiveness study of a computer-based English reading program, the Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), among first and second grade students in Israel. Students who used the program were compared to a control group only receiving English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction as part of the school curriculum. First…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement