The Effects of Duet Reading on the Reading Fluency of Elementary Students with Mild Disabilities

The Effects of Duet Reading on the Reading Fluency of Elementary Students with Mild Disabilities
Author: Katherine Marie Grashel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017
Genre: Children with disabilities
ISBN:

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of duet reading, a reading fluency intervention, for increasing the reading fluency of three elementary school students with disabilities in a public elementary school. A pre-experimental A-B design replicated across three students was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. Each student worked one-on-one with the researcher. Dependent measures included words read correctly per minute on novel grade level passages from AIMSweb and words read per correctly per minute on practiced grade level passages from AIMSweb. In addition, after intervention, students were given grade level passages in science to assess for generalization and data were collected on words read correctly per minute. At the conclusion of intervention, participants (students and their classroom teacher) completed a questionnaire indicating their levels of satisfaction with the procedures and outcomes of the intervention. Results of the study indicated no functional relation between duet reading on reading fluency when reading novel reading passages but do indicate a functional relation between duet reading and reading fluency on repeated readings.

The Effects of Repeated Reading Strategy On Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students

The Effects of Repeated Reading Strategy On Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students
Author: Daryl Rose Armstrong-Coppins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2013
Genre: Reading
ISBN:

The purpose of this action project was to explore the effect repeated reading strategy has on oral reading fluency and reading comprehension of middle school students. The repeated reading strategy supplemented the reading instruction of middle school students in a parental choice school. The 5-phase study included school and parental approval, student interest interview and teacher questionnaire; the administration of the Qualitative Reading Inventory - 5th edition for pre-test and post-test; repeated reading strategy training and intervention strategy implementation. Students paired together and trained on the intervention process received fluency-comprehension instruction 60 to 90 minutes twice a week. Growth was determined from the Pre-test and Post-test. The findings concluded an overall effect of the repeated reading strategy on fluency and comprehension of middle school students.

Strategies for Struggling Learners in the Era of CCSS & RTI

Strategies for Struggling Learners in the Era of CCSS & RTI
Author: Jim Wright
Publisher: National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1935609912

A must-have resource to help equip teachers to meet the challenge of preparing students with diverse needs to achieve ambitious new standards in an era of greater accountability. This comprehensive problem-solving manual by Jim Wright provides teachers with research-based strategies for strengthening instruction, delivering academic interventions, and addressing behavior management issues for both general and special education students. The book is designed to help teachers quickly and efficiently locate research-supported, classroom-based solutions for overcoming a variety of impediments to student success. Chapters are organized around specific teacher challenges, with the content of each supporting ideas and strategies contained throughout the book. They include >Core Instruction & Behavior Management: Foundations for Student Success; >Creating Academic Interventions That Promote Student Success in the Common Core; >Managing Behaviors to Promote Student Learning; >Collecting Data to Track Interventions; >Increasing Student Responsibility Through Self-Management; >Techniques to Help Teachers Succeed as Change Agents. Although making changes to one’s professional practice is hard work, any teacher who carefully reviews and implements best practices in core instruction, academic intervention, behavior management, and classroom assessment, such as those presented in this book, can expect to see substantial gains in student performance.

Reading with Ease

Reading with Ease
Author: Ann Van Wig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN: 9780355133806

The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to investigate the impact of a repeated reading fluency intervention focused on prosody, counterbalanced with an intervention focused on reading strategies. Both of these interventions were designed to promote feelings of achievement through participation in activities intended to promote reading success. Seventeen eighth grade students identified as requiring reading intervention were divided into A-Day and B-Day classes. All 17 students received the interventions but in alternating seven-week phases. The repeated reading fluency intervention employed recording and reflecting of children’s books as students metacognitively reflected upon the fluency components of rate, accuracy, and prosody. The study compared the results between A-Day and B-Day students using a repeated measures design using ANOVA. The repeated measures fluency intervention examined outcomes on measures of the Gray Oral Reading Test-Fifth Edition raw scores of rate and accuracy, the Comprehensive Oral Reading Fluency Scale that measured rate, accuracy, and prosody, and Multidimensional Fluency Scale that measured prosody. In addition, students responded to questions regarding perceptions of reading ability and behaviors using the Impression of My Reading survey. Results suggested the fluency intervention focused on prosody was effective in improving prosodic ability, but inconclusive on the improvements on the fluency components of rate and accuracy. Results also indicated students had improved perceptions of their reading ability and behaviors after participation in reading interventions designed to promote student reading success. Future research recommendations include extension of reading material to include graphic novels and to incorporate writing and subsequent reading of student created stories, plays, and poems.

Good-bye Round Robin

Good-bye Round Robin
Author: Michael F. Opitz
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The authors' aim is to show where oral reading fits in the reading program and share twenty-five of the best strategies for helping children learn to read aloud.