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Direct linkOlson, Peter C. – Reading Improvement, 2011
This study attempted to determine whether giving lower performing tutors preferential instruction over their higher performing tutees before they engage in peer tutoring sessions may help increase the reading achievement for these lower performing tutors. The preferential instruction consisted of giving adult-delivered instruction in a targeted…
Descriptors: Expertise, Video Technology, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency
Peer reviewedLove, Fannye Epps – Reading Improvement, 1981
Concludes that there was no significant difference in the reading proficiency of second-grade students who were taught with an experimental reading strategy technique and those taught with a traditional method of reading instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Grade 2, Miscue Analysis, Primary Education, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedAshworth, Deborah R. – Reading Improvement, 1999
Compares the reading achievement of second graders who were taught with a direct instruction program to second graders who were taught with a basal reading program in three areas: vocabulary, comprehension, and language. Finds Direct Instruction was more successful than the basal reading program. (NH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics
Camahalan, Faye Marsha G. – Reading Improvement, 2006
To study the effects of Metacognitve Reading Program on Reading achievement and metacognitive strategies of students with cases of dyslexia, the author conducted a single-case quasi-experimental. The conceptual framework of the study was based on the theories of cognitive processes stating that metacognition helps regulate the flow of information…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Memory, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement
Ashcroft, Laura; Ashcroft, Richard – Reading Improvement, 2005
This paper is a report of a singe-subject reading intervention that was conducted as part of a larger study. The subject's pre-test scores were too low to meet the criterion for including his results in the larger study (Ashcroft, 2004), but he was allowed to participate in an individualized version of the treatment. Because S's social and reading…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Reading Skills, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedChambless, Jim R.; Chambless, Martha S. – Reading Improvement, 1994
Compares effectiveness of computer-based instruction in K-2 to traditional instruction on the reading and writing achievement of second graders. Finds educationally significant effect sizes on comparisons of reading scores and measures of writing in favor of the computer-based instruction group for at-risk students. Suggests that computer-based…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 2, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedAnderson, Sherlie A. – Reading Improvement, 2000
Discusses factors related to parental involvement and reading achievement, including the benefits of parents reading to children, home environment factors, socioeconomic factors, barriers to parental involvement, and school involvement. Investigates whether parental involvement made a difference in the reading achievement of 30 second graders in a…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Parent Attitudes
