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The Impact of Adaptive, Web-Based, Scaffolded Silent Reading Instruction on the Reading Achievement of Students in Grades 4 and 5
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Spichtig, Alexandra N.; Gehsmann, Kristin M.; Pascoe, Jeffrey P.; Ferrara, John D. – Elementary School Journal, 2019
This randomized controlled trial examined the impact of adaptive, web-based, scaffolded silent reading instruction on 426 fourth- and fifth-grade students in an urban US school district. Reading proficiency was evaluated in the fall and spring using the Group Reading Assessment Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE) and an eye movement recording system…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Web Based Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Grade 4
Orthographic Learning and the Role of Text-to-Speech Software in Dutch Disabled Readers
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Staels, Eva; Van den Broeck, Wim – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
In this study, we examined whether orthographic learning can be demonstrated in disabled readers learning to read in a transparent orthography (Dutch). In addition, we tested the effect of the use of text-to-speech software, a new form of direct instruction, on orthographic learning. Both research goals were investigated by replicating Share's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Reading Instruction, Orthographic Symbols
Scaffolding Voluntary Summer Reading for Children in Grades 3 to 5: An Experimental Study
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Kim, James S.; White, Thomas G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with teacher and parent scaffolding were investigated in an experimental study. A total of 24 teachers and 400 children in Grades 3, 4, and 5 were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions: control, books only, books with oral reading scaffolding, and books with oral reading and…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Grade 3, Reading Instruction
The Effectiveness of Four Methods of Presentation upon the Recall of Factual Information of Expository Material by Fifth Graders.
Weathermon, Sidney Earl – 1976
This study investigated whether recall of expository information by a learner will be affected by the mode or combination of modes through which the information is presented. Subjects, 359 fifth-grade students, were randomly stratified into four treatment groups on the basis of sex and reading ability. Treatment for each of the groups was as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Grade 5
The Effects of Listening/Reading Transfer on Four Measures of Reading Comprehension.
Seaton, Hal W.; Wielan, O. Paul – 1980
The effectiveness of parallel lessons in listening and silent reading was compared to a traditional basal approach to reading comprehension skills instruction. One hundred seventy-four fifth graders from sixteen randomly selected classrooms were divided into experimental and control groups. A pretest on four measures of comprehension was…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Listening, Listening Skills
The Effect of Four Modes of Reading on Children's Comprehension.
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Holmes, Betty C.; Allison, Roy W. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1985
Reports on a study that investigated which of four modes of reading (oral reading to an audience, oral reading to oneself, silent reading, silent reading while listening) best facilitates fifth-grade students' comprehension. Concludes that for these students as a whole, comparable comprehension may be expected when they read to themselves or read…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
Confessions of a Former Skills Teacher.
Deardorff, Beth – Learning, 1982
A teacher who once relied on a reading skills program describes her conversion to an approach that emphasizes the reading of books. A substantial part of each class period is set aside for free reading time. A sampling of book projects used to focus students' efforts is included. (PP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Learning Activities, Reading Assignments