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- Title
THE EFFECTS OF A SUMMER READING PROGRAM USING SIMULTANEOUS MULTISENSORY INSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE ARTS ON READING PROFICIENCY.
- Authors
MAGPURI-LAVELL, THERESA; PAIGE, DAVID; WILLIAMS, ROSEMARY; AKINS, KRISTIA; CAMERON, MOLLY
- Abstract
The present study examined the impact of the Simultaneous Multisensory Institute for Language Arts (SMILA) approach on the reading proficiency of 39 students between the ages of 7-11 participating in a summer reading program. The summer reading clinic draws students from the surrounding community which is located in a large urban district in the southern region of the United States. These students voluntarily participated in the 4-week reading program where the main instruction was the SMILA approach. This instructional approach is used to teach specific sound-symbol relationships, accuracy and automaticity of word reading, and oral reading fluency. Analyses of pre- and post- testing of the Word Identification and Spelling Test (WIST) and One-minute reading fluency test scores indicated that students receiving this instructional approach demonstrated significant gains in word reading, sound-symbol knowledge, and oral reading fluency.
- Subjects
SUMMER reading programs; LANGUAGE arts; READING ability testing; EMERGENT literacy research; ORAL reading ability testing
- Publication
Reading Improvement, 2014, Vol 51, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
0034-0510
- Publication type
Article