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Menahem Yeari; Tal Lavi; Atalia Rasouly-Balfer; Liron Shalev – Reading Psychology, 2024
Meta-strategic learning refers to a mediated construction of knowledge regarding when, why and how to apply a group of strategies for accomplishing cognitive tasks. This study examined the effect of meta-strategic learning of structure strategies on reading comprehension of expository texts by secondary school students under whole-class…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials, Reading Instruction
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Okkinga, M.; van Gelderen, A. J. S.; van Schooten, E.; van Steensel, R.; Sleegers, P. J. C. – Reading Psychology, 2021
Low-achieving adolescents are known to have difficulties with reading comprehension. This article discusses whether principles of reciprocal teaching can improve low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension in whole-classroom settings and to what extent treatment effects are dependent on implementation quality. Over the course of two years,…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, Low Achievement, Adolescents, Grade 7
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Foster, David K.; Foster, Dean P. – Reading Psychology, 2014
This article provides a statistical analysis of the reading gains observed at one American school in the Caribbean that was using Accelerated Reader. It provides an estimate of the number of hours students needed to read to advance their reading performance an additional year. The authors estimate how much Accelerated Reader contributed to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Reading Instruction
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Pilonieta, Paola – Reading Psychology, 2010
Research supports using research-based comprehension strategies; however, comprehension strategy instruction is not highly visible in basal reading programs or classroom instruction, resulting in many students who struggle with comprehension. A content analysis examined which research-based comprehension strategies were presented in five…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Basal Reading, Reading Programs, Content Analysis
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Biggs, Marie C.; Homan, Susan P.; Dedrick, Robert; Minick, Vanessa; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Psychology, 2008
Software that teaches users to sing in tune and in rhythm while providing real-time pitch tracking was used in a study of struggling middle school readers. The software, Carry-a-Tune (CAT) was originally developed to improve singing; however, since it involves a repeated reading format, we used it to determine its effect on comprehension and…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Reading Comprehension, Singing, Reading Instruction
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Thames, Dana G.; Reeves, Carolyn; Kazelskis, Richard; York, Kathleen; Boling, Charlotte; Newell, Kavatus; Wang, Ying – Reading Psychology, 2008
This study examined the effects of individualized, integrated language arts as a reading approach on struggling readers' comprehension scores obtained from oral narrative, silent narrative, and silent expository passages at three levels: below-grade, on-grade, and above-grade levels. Students (N = 93) in grades four through eight, who were reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Basal Reading, Language Arts, Program Effectiveness