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Increase Reading Fluency of 4th and 5th Grade Students with Learning Disabilities Using Readers' Theatre
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Mountford, Kathy A. – Online Submission, 2007
The following Action Research Project Report is to improve the oral reading fluency of the 4th and 5th grade students with learning disabilities. The targeted population participating in this study consisted of a total of ten participants of which five were 4th grade students and five were 5th grade students located in a middle class community…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Research Projects
The Generalization of Skills and Drills vs. Corrective Feedback Instruction to the Independent Reading Performance of Intermediate Aged Learning Disabled Boys.
Hansen, Cheryl L. – 1976
The effects on independent reading performance of two methods of word-attack instruction were compared for eight learning-disabled boys of intermediate age. The students read orally in the Checkered Flag series for five minutes daily. After a baseline period of two or four weeks, the students received two weeks of instruction focused on observed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
A Study of the Effects of Teacher Oral Reading of Children's Literature on the Listening and Reading Achievement of Grade Four Students.
Weidner, Margaret Joanne – 1976
Four intact classrooms containing 68 grade four students were involved in a three-month study of the effects of varied amounts and frequency of exposure to oral reading of children's literature on reading and listening comprehension. Pretest and posttest scores from the Durrell Listening-Reading Series were obtained from all students; attitudes…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Listening Comprehension
A Measure of the Effectiveness of Instructional Strategies Based on Psycholinguistic Principles of Teaching Reading When Applied to a Program to Aid Seventh and Eighth Grade Underachievers.
Piper, Carol Jean – 1975
The purpose of this study was fourfold: (1) to conduct a qualitative diagnosis of the oral reading of selected middle school underachievers utilizing miscue analysis; (2) to select, design, and implement reading strategy lessons (RSL) based on psycholinguistic principles; (3) to determine to what extent the subjects were helped through the use of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Junior High Schools, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
Speed and Accuracy in the Reading of Regularly-Spelled and Irregularly-Spelled Words for Students Instructed in Distar Versus the Holt Reading Program.
McKnab, Kay Wedel – 1975
This study investigated developmental trends of certain oral-reading skills for first-, second-, and third-grade children instructed under the Distar Reading Program and the Holt Basic Reading System. The oral-reading skills studied were the overall speed and the accuracy of reading words spelled regularly and irregularly. Ten subjects comprised…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Oral Reading
A Study of the Relationship of Miscues to the Mode of Formal Reading Instruction Received by Selected Second Graders.
Dank, Marion Edelson – 1976
Second-grade pupils using the Ginn "Reading 360" or the McGraw-Hill "Programmed Reading" were compared in their reading and retelling of the story "King Alfred and the Cakes." Analysis, using the Reading Miscue Inventory, of the performance of 20 selected pupils indicated that those taught with "Programmed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach