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Blue, Elfreda V.; Alexander, Tammy – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2009
Students with learning disabilities face real reading challenges. Research into the reading performance of culturally diverse students indicates improved reading performance for culturally diverse students when text matches students' cultural perspective. This quasiexperimental research investigates whether Caucasian and African American students…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Tests, Student Diversity
FORD, BOYCE L.; LEVIN, HARRY – 1967
THE EFFECTS OF SEMANTIC CONTEXT ON THE VERBAL REACTION TIMES OF CHILDREN READING HOMOGRAPHS WERE STUDIED BY A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF WORD OR LETTER CUES PRECEDING THE HOMOGRAPHS TO BE READ. THE INVESTIGATOR DEVISED TWO EXPERIMENTAL WORDLISTS CONTAINING HOMOGRAPHS PRECEDED BY ONE-WORD, SEMANTICALLY SIMILAR NONHOMOGRAPHS AND TWO CONTROL LISTS…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Processes, Reading Rate, Visual Stimuli
LEVIN, HARRY; TURNER, ELIZABETH ANN – 1966
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF READING MATERIALS ON THE EYE-VOICE SPAN (EVS). THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IS THE DISTANCE THE EYE IS AHEAD OF THE VOICE IN READING ALOUD. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY WAS THAT THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IS NOT A CONSTANT OR FIXED LENGTH REGARDLESS OF THE MATERIAL BEING READ, BUT THAT, AMONG OTHER…
Descriptors: Eye Voice Span, Oral Reading, Participant Characteristics, Reading Development