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Direct linkMorris, Darrell; Gaffney, Meghan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
This case study describes a year-long, tutorial intervention with a disfluent eighth-grade reader. Focused instruction, including guided reading at the appropriate instructional level (4th grade), repeated readings, and home tape-recorder readings, led the student to improve his reading rate by 33% (75 wpm to 100 wpm). Formative and summative…
Descriptors: Intervention, Remedial Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate
