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Comparison of Repeated and Two Non-Repeated Readings Conditions on Reading Abilities of Students with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disabilities
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Escarpio, Raul – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders (EBD) present considerable academic challenges along with emotional and/or behavioral problems. In terms of reading, these students typically perform one-to-two years below grade level (Kauffman, 2001). Given the strong correlation between reading failure and school failure and overall success…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, Behavior Disorders, Reading Ability
Why Ambiguity Detection Is a Predictor of Early Reading Skill
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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
Reading Success and Failure among Chinese Children.
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Hsu, Chen-chin – 1987
Drawing on a cross-national study of children's reading, a study examined the correlates of reading success and failure in Taiwan. Subjects, 240 randomly selected Taipei fifth graders, were administered a reading test, cognitive test, and mathematics achievement test. A structured interview with each child's mother and classroom behavior…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Elementary Education, Family Influence, Foreign Countries
Thematic Organizers: Application to Remedial Reading.
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Risko, Victoria J.; Alvarez, Marino C. – 1982
Because thematic statements are too global to aid poor readers in comprehending texts, a series of studies using a common procedure was conducted to determine the relationship between teaching thematic concepts prior to reading and reading comprehension. The thematic organizers used in the studies contained three paragraphs that defined the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Ability
On Assessing Language and Reading Comprehension: The Development of a Diagnostic Instrument. Occasional Papers on Linguistics, No. 1.
Rosenbaum, Harvey; And Others – 1977
The work reported here is part of an ongoing project to develop a language comprehension assessment instrument that: (1) is sensitive enough to pinpoint the particular language phenomena that are causing difficulty or have not been mastered, and (2) is also broad enough in scope to provide a credible and useful description of language proficiency.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Diagnostic Tests, Language Acquisition
Reading Achievement: Characteristics Associated with Success and Failure: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," October 1978 through June 1979 (Vol. 39 Nos. 4 through 12).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 56 titles deal with a variety of topics concerning the relationship of reading achievement to many variables such as memory, listening comprehension, intelligence, self-concept, classroom behavior, reading attitude, home…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading