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Linda Fälth; Heidi Selenius; Christina Sand; Idor Svensson – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Students with intellectual disabilities need more time and explicit instruction to develop word decoding. Most previous research on interventions among these students is performed in English. Therefore, the current study examined the impact of a word-decoding intervention in Swedish on individual students with intellectual disabilities. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decoding (Reading), Students with Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disability
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Fälth, Linda; Svensson, Elin; Ström, Annika – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine how a structured intensive training period with a phonological multisensory reading training method, at the end of Grade 1, can develop pupils' ability to connect phonemes with the corresponding graphemes as well as their ability to decode. A total of 38 pupils in Grade 1 from four elementary schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Multisensory Learning
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Reichenberg, Monica – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2008
A three year longitudinal intervention study is presented where two conditions of reading instruction are compared. In a base condition six teachers--four in the experimental groups and two in the control groups--and their students in grade 4-6 discussed expository texts during a regular lesson. The discussions, which took place in small groups,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, Longitudinal Studies, Group Discussion
Edfeldt, Ake W. – Research Bulletins, 1990
A study investigated the effectiveness of the "News Read" project in which reading was taught using an analytic procedure (where understanding is a prerequisite for correct decoding) using newspapers as the sole reading materials. Subjects, about 300 students in three classes from each of the three levels of Swedish comprehensive schools…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Newspapers