When students struggle with reading at the elementary level, their needs are typically met with interventions that focus on word recognition and decoding skills. This same intervention approach is often used to address students who struggle with reading at the middle-school level. The middle school struggling reader accumulates deficits from…

As educational reform looks at students achieving national standards in reading, much of the educational research that has been conducted has been on students in general education settings. Most research conducted on special education students typically does not focus on students classified with autism, and what research is done on these students…

THIS HANDBOOK IS DESIGNED TO AID SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WHO ARE CALLED UPON TO TEACH READING ALONG WITH THEIR SPECIAL SUBJECT, BUT WHO HAVE HAD NO COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR TEACHING THE VARIOUS READING SKILLS. THE CONTENTS INCLUDE AN OVERVIEW OF READING, DEVELOPMENTAL READING, REMEDIAL PROGRAMS, READING AND THE SUBJECT TEACHER, ADMINISTERING A…

A study investigated the decoding automaticity of elementary students when receiving rule-based instruction (as a process of applying syllable and structural analysis rules and limited phonics), and when receiving holistic instruction in a whole language program (exercises in listening, reading and writing, integrated with classroom instruction…

Students derive more benefits from attending developmental reading courses that are an integral part of the academic curricula (Maxwell, 1997). Colleges that pair their developmental reading courses with content courses achieve the objective of integrating the developmental courses into the academic curricula. This article describes the model and…

The goals of this study were to (a) develop an empirically based model regarding the development of fluent and automatic reading in the early elementary school years and (b) determine whether fluent text-reading skills provided benefits for reading comprehension beyond those accounted for by fluent word decoding. First-, second-, and third-grade…

A study examined a collaborative project between a college and a New Jersey school district. The study was designed to facilitate change in reading instruction in a safe, non-intrusive manner. It used a collaborative model consisting of three sections: the beginning process, which included the choosing of director and co-director and formation of…