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Investigating the Effects of a Read-Aloud Alteration on the Third-Grade Reading Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRT) for Students with Disabilities
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Fincher, Melissa L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a controversial test administration alteration, the read-aloud alteration, in which text (passages and questions) is read aloud to the student on a reading comprehension test. For students whose disabilities impair their skill in decoding text and reading fluently, accessing text to…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Reading Aloud to Others
The Effect of a Reading Accommodation on Standardized Test Scores of Learning Disabled and Non Learning Disabled Students.
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Meloy, Linda L.; Deville, Craig; Frisbie, David – 2000
The effect of the Read Aloud accommodation on the performances of learning disabled in reading (LD-R) and non-learning disabled (non LD) middle school students was studied using selected texts from the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) achievement battery. Science, Usage and Expression, Math Problem Solving and Data Interpretation, and Reading…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
"Weaving a Web" of Literacy: A One-Year Evaluation of the Implementation of a Literature-Based Whole Language Approach.
Phillips, Laura A. – 1990
A study investigated the effectiveness of a program to improve the reading/vocabulary skills of an ability-grouped fifth grade class of "low achievers" (N=15) through the implementation of a literature-based whole language approach. Students were read aloud to from quality children's literature. From these books, spelling and vocabulary…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Research, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness