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Direct linkBiancarosa, Gina; Cummings, Kelli D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The primary objective of this special issue is to synthesize results from recent reading fluency research endeavors, and to link these findings to practical uses of reading curriculum-based measurement (R-CBM) tools. Taken together, the manuscripts presented in this issue discuss measurement work related to new metrics of indexing student reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Download full textO'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Flynn, Lindsay – Grantee Submission, 2015
We tested the effects of teaching reading skills through U.S. History content for 38 eighth-grade poor readers whose reading ability ranged from 2nd to 4th grade levels. Half of the students received special education services and half of the students were English Language Learners. Students were taught to decode multisyllabic words, learn…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties
Crawford, Pamela Sharp – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This was a qualitative case study that compared data across six district-level literacy coaches' epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading. All six coaches were working as a cohort of literacy coaches on the development and implementation of a secondary reading intervention program for seventh-grade struggling readers.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods, Vignettes
Playing Football without a Ball: Language, Reading and Academic Performance in a High-Poverty School
Pretorius, Elizabeth J.; Mampuru, Deborah Maphoko – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Second language (L2) reading research suggests that there is a complex interplay between L2 proficiency, first language (L1) reading and L2 reading. However, not much is known about the effect of L1 proficiency on L1 reading, and of L1 reading on L2 reading, or vice versa, in bilingual settings when readers have few opportunities for extensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Reading Research, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedSmiley, Sandra S.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Assesses the factors influencing the word pronunciation of seventh-grade adolescents who scored either above or below grade level on vocabulary skills. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Pronunciation
Gustafson, David J.; Klumb, Roger – 1977
One hundred forty-three seventh-grade students were assessed in the areas of word attack and comprehension. This study focused on the 71 students with the lowest total word-attack scores. Results indicated that all comprehension subskills had strong relationships to overall comprehension, but that many word-attack subskills had only low,…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Skills
CUTTS, WARREN G. – 1963
THIS BULLETIN PRESENTS RESEARCH STUDIES IN READING ON THE UPPER ELEMENTARY GRADE LEVEL DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1955 THROUGH 1960. THIS COMPILATION WAS UNDERTAKEN BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION IN AN ATTEMPT TO BRING TOGETHER THE UNPUBLISHED AS WELL AS PUBLISHED STUDIES OF THAT 5-YEAR PERIOD. THE 238 STUDIES WHICH ARE OUTLINED, SUMMARIZED, AND ANNOTATED…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Methods, Grade 6, Grade 7
Camperell, Kaybeth – 1980
A study was designed to determine if students' insights about the strategies they used to study and understand an expository passage were similar to basic types of comprehension skills developed in many reading programs. In addition, it examined (1) whether good and poor readers differed in the types of strategies they used, and (2) whether…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
Kefford, Roderick – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes a reading scheme in which seventh-grade students engage in sustained silent reading for one class period per week and the reading gains made by the students in the first six months of the year. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHarmon, Janis M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1999
Finds that two proficient middle-school readers (in initial encounters with self-selected, unknown words) employed multiple strategies to gain knowledge of new words, including making use of distant and local context, drawing on different types of content connections, doing word-level analysis, and using syntactically appropriate synonyms. They…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 7, Independent Reading, Middle Schools
Denner, Peter R.; McGinley, William J. – 1990
A study investigated the use of story impressions as a prereading writing activity to determine the story comprehension and recall of 96 seventh- and eighth-grade students. Students in the experimental group were given a set of story-relevant "impressions" (clue words) prior to reading a narrative passage and were asked to formulate a…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Hamilton, Harlan Bernhardt – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between televiewing and the reading interests of seventh grade pupils using 300 television (TV) tie-ins comprised of 18 different titles. The subjects were 253 pupils representing four seventh grade classes from low, middle, and high socioeconomic backgrounds in a suburban setting. The…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 7, Independent Reading, Reading
Smith, Arthur Edward – 1972
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of training students to generate their own questions prior to reading. The subjects were 116 seventh grade students enrolled in a junior high school developmental reading course. Three groups were formed: subjects receiving experimental treatment A, subjects receiving…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Grade 7, Questioning Techniques, Reading
Gill, Patrick Ralston – 1972
This study was an experimental investigation designed to ascertain the effectiveness of a technique for predicting student success in a special reading program. The disparity between a student's score on a reading test taken silently and his score on an equivalent form which was read orally by the investigator as the student read it silently was…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Reading
Shell, Mae – 1988
A study examined whether there is a relationship between students' reading grades and the amount of time they spend watching television. Subjects, seventh grade students from three classes (and four reading levels) of a public elementary school in Jersey City were given 84 charts to record their viewing habits for each of the three weeks of the…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Grade Point Average, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
