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The Effectiveness Of Reading Interventions For Middle School Students With Learning Disabilities, Jennifer Hicks
The Effectiveness Of Reading Interventions For Middle School Students With Learning Disabilities, Jennifer Hicks
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Students with learning disabilities are often unable to master reading comprehension and often fail to acquire reading comprehension skills at basic levels as measured on reading achievement assessments. Reading intervention programs Compass Learning and SRA Corrective Reading teach students how to apply strategies to their reading to improve their understanding of written text. The purpose of this quantitative ex-post facto research design was to determine the extent to which the reading intervention programs implemented at the research school improved reading achievement scores for seventh grade students with learning disabilities in reading, and to determine how much scores changed from the …
The Influence Of Multi-Sensory, Multi-Component Reading Intervention Strategies With Middle School Poor Readers, Josephine P. Moccia
The Influence Of Multi-Sensory, Multi-Component Reading Intervention Strategies With Middle School Poor Readers, Josephine P. Moccia
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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The Effects Of Teaching A Specific Top-Level Structure On The Organization Of Written Texts, K Brown
The Effects Of Teaching A Specific Top-Level Structure On The Organization Of Written Texts, K Brown
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching a specific top-level structure on students' recall and organization of expository text. The hypothesis to be investigated was that students explicitly taught the scientific report text structure schema would show improved recall and organization of written report text protocols. The report text structure utilized in this study was derived from Sloan and Latham's top-level structure of text organization devised from schema theory and semantic memory models.