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Cook, Pamela; Rodes, Deborah R.; Lipsitz, Kay L. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2017
Reading Recovery, a meaning-based reading program designed for young children at risk of reading failure, is widely implemented across the United States. We discuss the recent Reading Recovery $45 million four-year i3-funded scaleup study that was designed to "cover the expansion of Reading Recovery around the U.S." (May, Sirinides,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Early Intervention, Special Education, Learning Disabilities
Harley, Anne J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact and sustainability of successfully discontinued first grade Reading Recovery students as compared to non-Reading Recovery students in reading achievement measures as third graders. Schools are facing the unprecedented challenge to ensure reading success for all students by the end of second…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement
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
Frame, John N. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Problem: Some students are failing to develop acceptable reading skills; however, instructional time allocated to reading fluency can increase reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to compare students who received repeated reading with pairs of students in a large-group setting with those who did not in terms of reading fluency,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
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Wankoff, Lorain Szabo; Cairns, Helen Smith – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2009
This study was designed to determine the contributions of metalinguistic skill and psycholinguistic processing ability to children's ability to detect the ambiguity of sentences and the relationship among all three factors to early reading ability. A total of 20 first graders and 20 second graders were given tasks testing the following abilities:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Reading Readiness