Increasing word recognition with racially diverse second-grade students using fluency-oriented reading approaches/
The Journal of Educational Research
- 3 tables; 1 fig.; refs.; appendices.
- vol. 105, no. 4 (2012): 264-276.
The author examined the effectiveness of 2 fluency-oriented reading programs on improving reading fluency for an ethnically diverse sample of second-grade students. The first approach is Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (S.A. Stahl & K. Heubach, 2005), which incorporates the repeated reading of a grade-level text over the course of an academic week. This approach to reading is scaffolded by expert readers. The other approach is Wide-Reading Instruction (M.R. Kuhn, 2005), which also utilizes scaffolding by expert readers, but 3 different grade-level texts that both Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction and Wide-Reading Instruction are useful schemes for reading instruction with ethnically diverse second-grade students.