Reading fluency has been identified as a key component in effective literacy instruction (National Reading Panel, 2000). Instruction in reading fluency has been shown to lead to improvements in reading achievement. Reading fluency instruction is most commonly associated with guided repeated oral reading instruction. In the present retrospective study we examine the effects of a computer-based s...

this study explored the effects of 2 different types of strategies—translatedwriting vs. reading to write—in the writings of some of iranian efl learners inesfahan payamenoor university. the results showed no significant differences inthe students’ writings (in the 2 experimental groups and 1 control group) for thepretest topic. with respect to the posttest, the results, however, indicated that...

The current study was conducting to investigate the effect of suggested metacomprehension based strategy on enhancing some EFL critical reading skills and preferences secondary stage students from Gamal Abdel Naser Secondary School for Girls in academic year 2021/2022. They were equally divided into experimental control groups. researcher adopted quasi-experimental design where group received i...

This paper reports the effects of a two-year supplemental reading program for kindergarten through third grade students that focused on the development of decoding skills and reading fluency. Two hundred ninety-nine students were identified for participation and were randomly assigned to the supplemental instruction or to a no-treatment control group. Participants' reading ability was assessed ...

Reading comprehension is a significant concern for adolescents with learning disabilities (LD), particularly in secondary schools in the United States (US) where content is taught primarily through textbooks. Surprisingly little is known about the actual reading instruction for students with LD in secondary classrooms. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the reading comprehension ins...

Reading proficiency in the English alphabetic system requires mastery of common letter-to-sound mappings as well as rapid recognition of familiar words. Previous research has suggested that readers differ in their preferences for the two strategies of word reading, with some preferring to focus on the letter-tosound correspondences within a word, a grapheme-phoneme (GP) strategy, while others p...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

this study explores the effect of online annotations via interactive white boards (iwbs) on reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. to this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on oxford placement test (2014).then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...