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Skinner, Christopher H.; Robinson, Daniel H.; Adamson, Kelly L.; Atchison, Leigh A.; Woodward, John R. – Special Services in the Schools, 1998
Examined effects of instructing students to read silently as another person reads aloud on comprehension in secondary students with learning disabilities. Fast and slow treatment conditions were implemented with a silent-reading control condition. Differences in results on literal and inferential questions and their implications are discussed.…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Oral Reading
DeNight, Shawn – 1992
The purpose of this study was to examine whether proofreading a text aloud was more effective than silent proofreading in helping Black English Vernacular (BEV) speaking students to locate and correct dialect features in writing. The study was divided into two parts. In the first part, 29 11th grade BEV-speakers edited three teacher-produced…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Error Correction, Grade 11, High Schools
Smith, Lyle R. – 1984
The organization of social studies classroom communication and the format for presenting such communication were investigated. High school students (n=282) were assigned to groups determined by the possible combinations of lesson organization, also referred to as lesson commonality (high versus medium versus low), method of reading (oral versus…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Educational Research