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The Effectiveness of Reading Recovery on Struggling First Grade Students
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Narramore, J. Sunshine Mayes – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Reading Recovery (RR), an early intervention reading program, is designed to push a lagging learner to accelerate. In this study, the researcher compared reading comprehension and fluency growth for struggling first graders who participated in a traditional reading program only as compared to those in a traditional program plus a RR program. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Early Intervention, Reading Programs, Grade 1
Comparing the Reading Behaviors in Three Groups of First Grade Students--Students Who Discontinued from Reading Recovery, Students Who Did Not Discontinue from Reading Recovery, and Students Who Never Needed Reading Recovery
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Greaney, Sharon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare the variety, complexity, and frequency of reading behaviors of three groups of first grade students--students who discontinued from Reading Recovery (D-RR), students who did not discontinue from Reading Recovery (ND-RR), and students who never needed Reading Recovery (A-NRR). Students were asked to read…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading, Reading Failure, Reading Processes
A Preliminary Investigation of Supplemental Computer-Assisted Reading Instruction on the Oral Reading Fluency and Comprehension of First-Grade African American Urban Students
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Gibson, Lenwood; Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Keyes, Starr E. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2011
This preliminary investigation examined the effects of a computerized supplemental reading program on the oral reading fluency, reading growth rates, and comprehension of 8 African American first graders. Participants were selected for this study according to scores within risk categories on the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Fluency
The Ability of Oral Fluency to Predict Reading Comprehension among ELL Children Learning to Read
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Millett, Joseph Ridge – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current study analyzed existing data, collected under a previous U.S. Department of Education Reading First grant, to investigate the strength of the relationship between scores on the first- through third-grade Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills-Oral Reading Fluency (DIBELS-ORF) test and scores on a reading comprehension test…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, Second Language Learning
The Effects of a Computer Assisted Reading Program on the Oral Reading Fluency and Comprehension of At-Risk, Urban First Grade Students
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Gibson, Lenwood, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The current investigation studied the effects of a computer software program of the oral reading fluency and comprehension of eight, first grade students. These students were identified as being either "at-risk" or "some-risk" for reading failure on the DIBELS oral reading fluency winter benchmark assessment. A multiple probe…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Programs, Reading Fluency, Computer Software