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Direct linkSnyder, Elise; Golightly, Amy F. – Education, 2017
Reading is a skill that is necessary to be successful both academically and professionally in today's society. Thus, it is essential that educators work with students to develop their reading skills and help them become proficient readers (Otto, 2008). This study concurrently implemented a phonics-based reading intervention and a sight-word…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Case Studies, Reading Instruction
Download full textHornery, Samantha; Seaton, Marjorie; Tracey, Danielle; Craven, Rhonda G.; Yeung, Alexander S. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2014
This article describes the need for, and the structure and contents of, a reading program to help support children disadvantaged by reading difficulties. The program, delivered by trained and supported volunteers, lasts for 15 weeks. It uses a novel dual approach which aims to improve students' reading skills and simultaneously enhance their…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Self Concept, Children
Baranek, Amy; Fienup, Daniel M.; Pace, Gary – Behavior Modification, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine utility of a brief experimental analysis (BEA) in determining effective sight word interventions for a student with a history of difficulty with acquiring sight word recognition. Ten interventions were compared in a BEA. Following the BEA, an extended analysis was conducted that compared the two most…
Descriptors: Sight Vocabulary, Word Recognition, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
Sight-word instruction can improve functioning with various daily, recreational, and work-related tasks among children with moderate to severe disabilities. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of drill methods to teach sight words if the model contains at least 50% known items, which would also increase the number of opportunities…
Descriptors: Sight Vocabulary, Mental Retardation, Drills (Practice), Opportunities
Didden, Robert; de Graaff, Saskia; Nelemans, Marielle; Vooren, Martijn; Lancioni, Giulio – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2006
Differential effects of three training procedures to teach sight words to 13 children with moderate to mild mental retardation were investigated in an alternating treatments design. Number of correct responses was assessed during probe sessions in word-alone (word was presented without picture), integrated-picture (word was presented with…
Descriptors: Mild Mental Retardation, Sight Vocabulary, Instructional Effectiveness, Children
Fossett, Brenda; Mirenda, Pat – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
Numerous instructional techniques have been used to teach sight word reading skills to individuals with developmental disabilities. The results of research incorporating paired associate instruction, in which familiar pictures are paired with unknown print stimuli, suggest that pictures ''block'' (i.e., interfere with) learners' ability to…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Children, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
De Lacy, Elizabeth – Slow Learning Child, 1973
Evaluated was sequencing as a visual ability often deficient in dyslexic children through comparison of two methods of teaching reading with two third grade classes of girls. (DB)
Descriptors: Children, Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
