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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Decoding skills"”.
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The Relationship Between English Language Learners' Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
… correlations between phonemic awareness and decoding in English language learners (ELL) and English-proficient (non-ELL) first grade students. There is a general consensus in the literature that phonemic awareness and decoding are strongly related during early reading development (Ehri, …
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The effects of using direct instruction and computer-assisted instruction on teaching decoding skills to elementary students with learning disabilities
… effect of the Project Read program in teaching decoding skills to students with learning disabilities, and evaluate the effects of the supplemental computer program, Explode the Code. Three second grade students with learning disabilities participated in this study. Both interventions were …
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The effectiveness of the Wilson Reading Program in improving spelling and decoding skills of a selected sample of special needs children
… students in order to determine their levels of decoding and encoding prior to administration of the Wilson Program. The two students in the study group increased their decoding and encoding significantly; while the control group improved only to a level that would be consistent with their …
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An Investigation Into the Influence of Word Recognition Skills, Decoding Abilities and Orthographic Rule Knowledge on Spelling Proficiency in Third, Fourth, and Fifth Graders
… Specifically, letter word knowledge, basic decoding skills and the explicit knowledge of orthographic rules were assessed. Both standardized and non-standardized measures were used to assess these domains in 87 research participants. Results indicated that decoding ability is the most …
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The Effectiveness of a Skill Based Explicit Phonics Reading Program K-2 as Measured by Studetn Performance and Teacher Evaluation
… second grade. As teachers, the methods of decoding words that we introduce to the beginning readers must prove to be effective in introducing and building reading skills. Most recent studies have revisited and concurred with studies done in the 1930s and 1960s that the lack of phonics based …
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Examining Relations between Executive Functions and Decoding: A Meta-analytic Investigation
… established models of reading that present decoding and linguistic comprehension as critical skills in the development of reading competencies. Previous research has highlighted the connection between reading comprehension and cognitive skills, including those which fall under the term of …
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Öğrenme güçlüğü olan öğrencilerin okuduğunu anlama becerilerinin normal gelişim gösteren akranlarıyla karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesi
… to comparatively examine reading comprehension skills of students with and without learning disabilities. This study included 240 elementary students of which 120 were students with learning disabilities and 120 were normally developing students and who attended 3rd and 4th grades in Konya. In …
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Guided reading instruction and making words
… in a first grade classroom, improves the decoding skills of first grade students with and without disabilities. The students were administered the Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation as a pretest and posttest of the study. The Making Words strategy was implemented at the conclusion …
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Pixel Is The New Print. How Electronic Books Support Emergent Literacy: A Case Study
… emergent reader, as well as how ebooks support decoding and comprehension. Qualitative data was collected from one second grade female student. The results of the study indicated the participant displayed a strong preference to using ebooks over traditional paper books. The participant was …
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An Investigation into How Word Learning Modality Influences Subsequent Word Processing During Sentence Reading
… like reading comprehension ability, phonological decoding skills, phonological recoding skills, and orthographic transparency, were examined. Behavioral results indicated word learning modality influenced word identification accuracy and orthographic transparency influenced word identification …
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Impact of the Orton-Gillingham program on the reading of students who are reading below grade level
… These students are in regular education, Basic Skills Improvement Program, or special education classes. Students received tutoring in groups which consisted of four to five students in each group and were homogeneous. The Dynamic Indicator for Early Basic Literature Skills assessments were used …
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Factors Influencing Readers When Matching Texts to Struggling Students
… which included both reading comprehension and decoding skills. Research data was gathered using Fountas and Pinnell 2008 Leveling System Kit. Conclusions noted student background knowledge and personal interest as assets in understanding the individual profile of readers and in assessing …
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Evaluating the Impact of a Reciprocal Teaching Intervention for Learners with Diverse Reading Abilities in the Upper Primary Phase
… its significant impact for readers with adequate decoding skills but who are poor comprehenders. However, evidence of RT within heterogeneous settings remains inconclusive, especially in the UK where it is recently emerging as a teaching method. After suggesting that reading comprehension goes …
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Comparison of Reading Development Across Socioeconomic Status in the United States
… was disproportionately mediated by two language skills, vocabulary (VOC) and phonological awareness (PA). For the RC models, both SWR and oral listening comprehension (OLC) did not disproportionally mediate the relation between RC and SES; however, full mediation was not exhibited. With regard to …
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The comprehension skills of children learning English as an additional language (EAL)
… Investigations into EAL learners' literacy skills have identified comprehension as a key area of difficulty for this group (e.g. Hutchinson, Whiteley, Smith & Connors, 2003). For monolingual children, difficulties with comprehension impact on learning and attainment across the curriculum …
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Enhancing Struggling Readers' Word Decoding: Assessing the Impact of Digital Text Features
… who are reading below grade level, to overcome decoding challenges. This qualitative, case study is in response to the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Right to Read Report (OHRC, 2022) which advocates for K–8 students to have a better sense of foundational literacy skills. The study was …
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Cognitive behavior modification : the effects of a self-instructional strategy on the reading comprehension of fifth grade students
… Students were screened to establish adequate decoding skills and below average reading comprehension ability. Additionally, on the basis of the screening process, students were judged to have average intellectual functioning and an adequate receptive vocabulary. Of the students meeting the …
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Reading words and reading minds: an investigation of the skills of children diagnosed with hyperlexia
… diagnosis. The subjects' unexpected exceptional decoding strength together with their similarly unusual reading comprehension failure form the focus of this study. Reasons accounting for both these phenomena are explored. Diagnosis of these subjects is considered in relation to previous …
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A socio-cultural study exploring Greek and English 11-year-old children's responses to wordless picturebooks
… active engagement, for each reader uses visual decoding skills and culturally-oriented knowledge in an effort to resolve the ambiguities of the pictures in a wordless story. The socio-cultural dimension is highlighted throughout this study since the entire process of reading is considered a …
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