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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction with Increasing Black and Latino Reading Fluency, as Compared to Asian and White Second-Grade Students' Reading Fluency
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Turner, Franklin Dickerson – Journal of Negro Education, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI) on improving reading fluency for an ethnically diverse sample of second-grade students. FORI incorporates the repeated reading of a grade-level text over the course of an academic week. This approach to reading uses scaffolding by expert readers. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, African American Students
Effects of School Climate and School Social Structure on Student Academic Achievement in Selected Urban Elementary Schools.
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West, Carol Ann – Journal of Negro Education, 1985
A study of nearly 30 urban elementary schools indicates that school composition (including race and socioeconomic background, school social structure, and certain social climate variables) explains more than 83 percent of between-school variance in reading achievement and 65 percent in mathematics achievement. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement