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de Jong, Peter F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Serial rapid automized naming (RAN) has been often found to correlate more strongly with reading than discrete RAN. This study aimed to demonstrate that the strength of the RAN-reading fluency relationship is dependent on the format of both RAN and the reading task if the reading task consists of sight words. Seventy-one first-grade, 74…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Reading
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Snellings, Patrick; van der Leij, Aryan; de Jong, Peter F.; Blok, Henk – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
Breznitz (2006) demonstrated that Hebrew-speaking adults with reading disabilities benefited from a training in which reading rate was experimentally manipulated. In the present study, the authors examine whether silent reading training enhances the sentence reading rate and comprehension of children with reading disabilities and whether results…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Silent Reading