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Paige, David D.; Smith, Grant S.; Rupley, William H. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
Phonemic awareness is thought to be a causal factor predicting early reading acquisition while its influence diminishes as other reading skills develop. This is a descriptive study of 74, primarily African American, fifth- through eighth-grade students attending a small, inner-city school. The study sought to determine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Word Recognition, Reading Skills
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Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Lam, Chun Bun – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
The present study investigated the co-occurrence of word reading and spelling difficulties for Chinese first language (L1) and English second language (L2) and the role of morphological awareness in word reading and spelling ability across two languages. A total of 110 Hong Kong Chinese-speaking students in Grade 7, including 55 adolescents with…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Skills, Spelling, Word Recognition
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Lovett, Maureen W.; Frijters, Jan C.; Steinbach, Karen A.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Adolescents with reading disability (RD) participated in a randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a multiple-component reading intervention with motivational components (PHAST). A total of 514 youth in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade formed instructional groups (4-8) that were randomly assigned to one of three conditions--one of two PHAST…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Miller, Paul; Kargin, Tevhide; Guldenoglu, Birkan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
The present study investigates differences in the word-reading process between individuals reading in a deep (unpointed Hebrew) and a shallow orthography (Turkish). The participants were 120 students evenly and randomly recruited from three levels of education (primary = 3rd-4th graders; middle = 6th-7th graders; high = 9th-10th graders). The…
Descriptors: Turkish, Semitic Languages, Reading Processes, Elementary School Students
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Div. of Educational Services. – 1982
One of 13 instructional models developed for use in Detroit's public schools, this course outline describes ten library sessions for teaching seventh and eighth grade students dictionary skills. It is noted that the complete library reference skills program was designed to improve student performance in the Ninth-Grade Objective-Referenced Testing…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Assignments, Context Clues, Definitions