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Zvoch, Keith; Stevens, Joseph J. – Elementary School Journal, 2015
A one-group repeated-treatment design was used to examine the academic year and summer oral reading fluency outcomes for students attending a district-sponsored summer literacy program (N = 250). Piecewise growth models applied to longitudinal data obtained during the first and second grade and over the course of the intervening summer revealed…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Summer Programs, Reading Difficulties, Grade 1
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Faust, Miriam; Kandelshine-Waldman, Osnat – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study used two letter detection tasks, the classic missing letter effect paradigm and a single word versus familiar word compound version of this paradigm, to study bottom-up and top-down processes involved in reading in normally achieving as compared to low achieving elementary school readers. The research participants were children…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Models, Word Recognition, Reading Instruction
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Lane, Holly B.; Pullen, Paige C.; Hudson, Roxanne F.; Konold, Timothy R. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
This study examined the components of a one-on-one literacy tutoring model to identify the necessary and sufficient elements for helping struggling beginning readers. The tutoring components of interest included word work using manipulative letters, written word work, and a generalization component. Reading assessment data from 100 first-grade…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sight Vocabulary, Phonological Awareness, Data Analysis
Konold, Timothy R.; Juel, Connie; McKinnon, Marlie – 1999
This study investigated children's profiles on four constructs fundamental to areas of children's early literacy acquisition: auditory processing, crystallized ability, processing speed, and short-term memory. These areas were measured using six tests: Memory for Sentences, Visual Matching, Incomplete Words, Sound Blending, Oral Vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Models
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Lambert, Nadine M.; Nicoll, Richard C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
A model relating nonintellectual behavior to first and second grade reading performance is supported. The three dimensions include: (1) behaviors reflecting adaptation to school; (2) individual differences in emotional states; and (3) individual differences in interpersonal behavior. These affective behaviors are measured using Lambert's Pupil…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Beginning Reading, Behavior Rating Scales, Interpersonal Relationship
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Appelhof, Pieter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1984
This article overviews a summative evaluation of the School Advisory Center's innovative initial reading curriculum program from 1972 to 1978 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The evaluation design used was Stake's "countenance model" with description and observation matrices. Reading achievement results were disappointing and were attributed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Organization, Course Organization, Evaluation Methods