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Direct linkMarr, Mary Beth; Algozzine, Bob; Kavel, Rebecca L.; Dugan, Katherine Keller – Reading Improvement, 2010
Fluent oral reading is essential for success in elementary school. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of enhanced reading fluency instruction for struggling readers. In a response-to-intervention context, the effort represented a primary intervention available to all students but provided only to those judged likely to need…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties
Download full textKuhn, Melanie; Schwanenflugel, Paula – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2006
This paper discusses fluency's role in reading development and suggests ways of incorporating fluency instruction into the literacy curriculum through a range of oral reading approaches. It concentrates on two distinct groups of learners: students who are making the shift to fluent reading (generally second and third graders) and those who have…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kuhn, Melanie – Reading Teacher, 2004
Effective approaches to fluency instruction should facilitate automatic and accurate word recognition as well as the ability to read with expression. The study reported in this article focused on instructional approaches that can be used with small groups of learners within a broader literacy curriculum, one that is suitable for flexible grouping.…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Teaching Methods, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
Feazell, Victoria S. – Reading Teacher, 2004
This article shares the research-based instructional techniques used in a reading program (Reading Acceleration Program, or RAP) in a school in which the majority of the students were English-language learners and came from low-income families. In this model, special education and general education teachers collaborated in order to intervene on…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Intervention
Pardo, Laura S. – Reading Teacher, 2004
This article presents a model of comprehension to support classroom teachers as they engage their students in making meaning from text. Four areas contribute to the comprehension process: the reader, the context, the text, and the transaction, which is described as the intersection of the reader and text situated within a specific context. This…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Skills, Inferences, Independent Reading
Carr, Maureen Sherry – 2002
Current middle-school standards require students to operate at levels of literacy never before expected of 10- to 14-year-olds. This monograph, written for teachers, addresses literacy development in middle-school students, stressing the crucial role of teachers. It suggests that teachers must change the core of educational practice and examine…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Basic Skills, Childrens Writing, Early Adolescents
