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Xu, Zhihong; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lin, Shuqiong; Yang, Xinyuan; Nan, Bo – Reading Psychology, 2022
The difficulties with developing high-order reading comprehension skills negatively impact academic success across fields. The current study investigated whether the text structure strategy instruction, delivered through the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) to adult English learners as a foreign language (EFL), can improve reading…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Paige, David D. – Reading Psychology, 2018
This essay challenges whether or not the use of district money for Reading Recovery© (RR) instruction is an effective expenditure of funds that results in sustained improvement in student reading outcomes. As a Tier 3 intervention, RR provides expensive, one-on-one tutoring for first- and second-grade readers that is occupying an increasingly…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Advocacy, Reading Programs, School Districts
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Rasinski, Timothy; Samuels, S. Jay; Hiebert, Elfrieda; Petscher, Yaacov; Feller, Karen – Reading Psychology, 2011
Reading fluency has been identified as a key component in effective literacy instruction (National Reading Panel, 2000). Instruction in reading fluency has been shown to lead to improvements in reading achievement. Reading fluency instruction is most commonly associated with guided repeated oral reading instruction. In the present retrospective…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency
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Rupley, William H.; Blair, Timothy R. – Reading Psychology, 1980
Chronological review of various studies from the past 50 years on the effectiveness of methods for teaching reading, conducted to devise criteria and implement methods for greater reading achievement. (HTH)
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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Smith, Judith; Elkins, John – Reading Psychology, 1985
Concludes that underachieving readers appeared to make significantly less use of the phonemic, graphic, and grammatical features of text when providing miscue responses to cohesive items than they did when making miscue responses to the text as a whole. In addition, they often lost the meaning relationships conveyed by the text when providing…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Schools, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 6