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Helf, Shawnna; Cooke, Nancy L.; Flowers, Claudia P. – Preventing School Failure, 2009
Schools face many decisions on how to maximize instructional time and provide support for students who are at risk for failure in reading. Instructional grouping plays an important role. The authors used a true group experimental design to compare 2 grouping conditions--1:1 (1 tutor to 1 student) and 1:3 (1 tutor to 3 students)--on the reading…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Reading Achievement
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Musti-Rao, Shobana; Hawkins, Renee O.; Barkley, Elizabeth A. – Preventing School Failure, 2009
Oral reading fluency, which includes the effortless and smooth oral production of text, is an essential part of deriving meaning from text. Fluency is a particularly important skill in upper elementary school grades when students are exposed to higher level reading materials. The authors evaluated the effects of a repeated readings intervention…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure