Helping Struggling Readers Comprehend Information Texts

Teaching Struggling Middle School Readers to Comprehend Informational Text

This project involves developing a reading comprehension curriculum based on the Construction-Integration model (Kintsch, 1998) and implementing a pilot efficacy study in middle-school classrooms. The curriculum (BRAVO) explicitly defines the cognitive processes involved in skilled reading, teaching students how to establish local and global text coherence and use background knowledge to create...

Reading Fluency: Critical Issues for Struggling Readers

Morpho-phonemic analysis boosts word reading for adult struggling readers

A randomized control trial compared the effects of two kinds of vocabulary instruction on component reading skills of adult struggling readers. Participants seeking alternative high school diplomas received 8 h of scripted tutoring to learn forty academic vocabulary words embedded within a civics curriculum. They were matched for language background and reading levels, then randomly assigned to...

Examining Language and Literacy Profiles of Adolescent Struggling Readers

School Culture, Struggling Adolescent Readers, and the Dialogical Self

Sociocultural perspectives of literacy emphasize the role of the larger environment in the shaping of literacy practices. As a result, some researchers theorize students don’t fail in school, but that schools fail students by denying them opportunities to practice literacy in personally meaningful ways. Evidence of such is manifest in the narrative identities of struggling adolescent readers. I...