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Adult-Mediated Reading Instruction For Third Through Fifth Grade Children With Reading Difficulties, Randy Paul Lachney
Adult-Mediated Reading Instruction For Third Through Fifth Grade Children With Reading Difficulties, Randy Paul Lachney
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examined the efficacy of using minimally trained college undergraduates to tutor third- through fifth-grade students with reading difficulties. Tutors receiving four hours of training in scripted reading program based on the principles of Direct Instruction and emphasizing explicit instruction in phonological awareness and decoding. Thirty-six students from two elementary schools in a large southeastern city in the United States were selected and randomly assigned to treatment (tutoring) or contrast (non-tutoring) conditions. Treatment students received an average of fourteen and a half hours of tutoring over a twelve-week period. Data indicated that university students with minimal training successfully implemented …