This study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of using the Computer Assisted Repeated Reading (CARR) technique to enhance Form One rural students' oral reading fluency (ORF). The single subject experimental design (SSED) involved five students who participated in a 12-week study where CARR intervention was carried out twice a week.…

This study examined the impact of two variations of repeated reading on the fluency and comprehension of 173 sixth-grade students at a rural middle school. Students were randomly assigned to one of two repeated reading groups that focused on either improved reading rate or prosody and a comparison group that engaged in an equivalent amount of wide…

This program evaluation is a study of the effectiveness of a core reading program, Journeys, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), on the early literacy skills and oral reading fluency (ORF) of kindergarten through second grade students in a rural elementary school. The scores of the students in the experimental group were compared to scores of…

An increasing number of elementary students in a rural school were promoted to a higher grade without having grade-level reading fluency skills, thereby becoming at risk of not reaching or maintaining their academic grade level reading skills. The purpose of this ex post facto quantitative study involving archival data analysis was to investigate…

Response to intervention (RtI) is an approach to assist students with learning difficulties. There is limited research into the effectiveness of RtI within rural school districts. To address that gap, this quantitative, experimental study tested the theory of RtI, comparing the tier of intervention to oral reading fluency, controlling for…