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- Title
An examination of group-based treatment packages for increasing elementary-aged students' reading fluency.
- Authors
Begeny, John C.; Silber, Jennifer M.
- Abstract
Reading fluency has been described as one of the essential ingredients for ensuring that students become successful readers. Unfortunately, a large number of elementary-aged students in this country do not fluently read age-appropriate material. Because of this, small-group interventions are practical and more time efficient than individualized intervention programs, but very few small-group interventions have been developed to target students' reading fluency of connected text. The primary purpose of this study was to examine four group-based treatment packages containing two or more of the following reading interventions: repeated reading, listening passage preview, and practicing difficult words in isolation. Effects of each treatment package were evaluated with 4 third graders using an alternating-treatments design, and effects were evaluated for both immediate and retained reading-fluency gains. Findings indicated that the combination of all three intervention components was most effective. Results also suggested some inconsistent relationships between immediate and retained reading gains for 3 of the 4 students. Implications of these findings, limitations of the study, and directions for future research are discussed. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 43: 183–195, 2006.
- Subjects
READING (Elementary); READING (Primary) -- Direct instruction approach; READING ability testing; READING comprehension; READING strategies; ENGAGED reading; GROUP reading; SCHOOL children; EDUCATION research
- Publication
Psychology in the Schools, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
0033-3085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pits.20138