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Direct linkGuo, Daibao; Feng, Luxi; Hodges, Tracey S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
The primary goal of the present systematic review was to examine the criteria and measures used for assessing students with "specific comprehension deficit" (SCD) who have adequate decoding skills but still perform poorly on reading comprehension assessments. From a systematic review of 32 studies, we found four predominant selection…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading), Reading Skills
Hall-Mills, Shannon S.; Marante, Leesa M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
This systematic review article summarizes the effects of explicit text structure instruction on expository text comprehension for adolescents with learning disabilities or at risk for reading failure. A thorough literature search with four databases and backward citation search identified nine studies published in the past 22 years for inclusion…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Direct Instruction, Expository Writing, Instructional Effectiveness
Kelso, Katrina; Whitworth, Anne; Parsons, Richard; Leitão, Suze – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
Poor comprehenders are a significant subgroup of poor readers who, due to their ability to read aloud accurately, are often difficult to identify. This study aimed to determine whether assessment using two oral language tasks, mapped onto the two components of the Simple View of Reading, would provide an efficient approach to identification.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading, Grade 3
Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Breazeale, Ashley M.; Davis, Lyle H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine whether group-based differences exist in word- and text-level reading in a clinical sample of students with dyslexia, and to shed light on the cognitive processes supporting these essential skills. Second- through seventh-grade students were administered a battery of standardized measures of cognitive…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Grade 2, Grade 3
Download full textDenton, Carolyn A.; Montroy, Janelle J.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Cannon, Grace – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of this feasibility study was to inform the development of an intervention to support reading and self-regulation for students with significant reading difficulties and disabilities (RDs), including dyslexia. Participants were 21 special educators, dyslexia specialists, and reading interventionists and 48 students in Grades 2 to 4.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Development, Reading Skills, Self Management
Capin, Philip; Cho, Eunsoo; Miciak, Jeremy; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
This study investigated the word reading and listening comprehension difficulties of fourth-grade students with significant reading comprehension deficits and the cognitive difficulties that underlie these weaknesses. Latent profile analysis was used to classify a sample of fourth-grade students (n = 446) who scored below the 16th percentile on a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Williams, Kelly J.; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
English learners with learning disabilities (LD) have well-documented difficulties comprehending text. This study examined the effects of an intensive reading intervention (Reading Intervention for Adolescents [RIA]) on reading outcomes (word reading, vocabulary, and comprehension) for ninth-grade ELs with LD (n = 85). In the RIA, students…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities
Mariage, Troy V.; Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Mary F. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
This exploratory case study used a mixed-methods pre-/post-intervention design to study the impact of an intervention on reading comprehension, annotation, and discussion quality. Five third-grade struggling readers who were part of a Tier 2 reading comprehension group were apprenticed into holding close-reading discussions of informational text.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
