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Reading Growth of Students with Disabilities in the Context of a Large-Scale Statewide Reading Reform Effort
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Sanford, Amanda Kathleen; Park, Yonghan; Baker, Scott K. – Journal of Special Education, 2013
The reading growth of 1,422 second- and third-grade students in special education was examined in the context of schools with 1 and 3 years of experience with Oregon Reading First. Findings suggested that (a) experience with Reading First was associated with greater student reading growth regardless of special education status, (b) students in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Special Education
An Examination of the Relation of Nonsense Word Fluency Initial Status and Gains to Reading Outcomes for Beginning Readers
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Fien, Hank; Park, Yonghan; Baker, Scott K.; Smith, Jean L. Mercier; Stoolmiller, Mike; Kame'enui, Edward J. – School Psychology Review, 2010
A theory-based approach was used to investigate the relations among Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) initial skill status in the fall of first grade, NWF growth across the school year, and end-of-year oral reading fluency and reading comprehension (RC) skill. Hypotheses were anchored to Perfetti's verbal efficiency theory and the role of automaticity…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Early Reading, School Psychologists