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Direct linkYasser A. Al-Hilawani; Asmaa S. M. Al-Subhi – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2024
This study examined the differences among the typically developing, low-achieving, and young offender participants on indices of oral and silent reading, listening comprehension, the Raven and behavior scales, and parental status. A convenient sample of 81 males and females from the same geographical region in the Sultanate of Oman took part in…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Low Achievement, Reading Skills, Oral Reading
Washburn, Jocelyn – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
This study examined incremental change for several reading component skills while adolescents were actively learning a word-level intervention and measured pre-/postintervention change in skills. Six ninth graders in two different classes participated during the 2019-2020 academic year. Primary analysis was based on an A-B single-case design…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Gilliam, Brenda K.; Dykes, Frank; Gerla, Jacqueline K.; Wright, Gary L. – Reading Improvement, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the link between speech and reading to oneself among struggling readers in secondary schools. The researchers examined the extent to which adolescent struggling readers used various vocal and subvocal behaviors, such as lip movement, mumbling, whispering, and oral reading during individual reading…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Oral Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Lee, Valarie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Today's adolescents must meet increasing demands for high levels of literacy. However, low self-efficacy and motivation for reading often prohibit adolescents from developing and sustaining positive reading habits. Consequently, educators must provide opportunities for students to experience reading as a rewarding and useful endeavor. Research…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Habits, Mentors, Sustained Silent Reading
Thompson, Gail; Madhuri, Marga; Taylor, Deborah – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Two pressing education reforms entail improving students' reading skills and improving high schools in the United States. In this article, the authors focus on both of these issues by adding the voices of students in an underperforming high school to the discussion about reading reform. We present the results of a larger study pertaining…
Descriptors: High Schools, Focus Groups, Educational Change, Reading Skills
Alderdice, Kay – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1979
Describes a language arts teacher's work at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children, showing how the teacher established student reading habits before developing their writing. (A novel written by one of the students is included as an example of the work done in the program.) (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education
Ghelani, Karen; Sidhu, Robindra; Jain, Umesh; Tannock, Rosemary – Dyslexia, 2004
Reading comprehension is a very complex task that requires different cognitive processes and reading abilities over the life span. There are fewer studies of reading comprehension relative to investigations of word reading abilities. Reading comprehension difficulties, however, have been identified in two common and frequently overlapping…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Attention Deficit Disorders
