TY - JOUR
T1 - From A to Z
T2 - Effects of a 2nd-grade reading intervention program for struggling readers
AU - Lopes, João
AU - Martins, Pedro Silva
AU - Oliveira, Célia
AU - Ferreira, João
AU - Oliveira, João
AU - Crato, Nuno
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PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Many children in primary grades show difficulties with reading fluency, hardly reading text or doing it effortfully and fruitlessly, making intervention programs for struggling readers a priority for researchers and schools. This paper analyzes the results of a reading intervention program for 182 second-grade struggling readers (boys = aged 7-8 46.7%) from public schools. Students received a multi-component program, including repeated readings, word recognition, morphological analysis, text interpretation, and writing skills. Participants received about fifty 45-minute intervention sessions over the school year. Using a difference-in-differences, quasi-experimental between- (intervention and control group) and within-group longitudinal design (three-point measurements), we found that the intervention group progressed significantly faster than a classmate control group (n = 827, boys = aged 7-8, 52.4%) in all reading outcomes (speed, accuracy, and expressiveness). By the end of the school year, differences between the intervention and control groups in accuracy and expressiveness become small but are still large in reading speed. Implications for research and practice are presented at the end of the paper.
AB - Many children in primary grades show difficulties with reading fluency, hardly reading text or doing it effortfully and fruitlessly, making intervention programs for struggling readers a priority for researchers and schools. This paper analyzes the results of a reading intervention program for 182 second-grade struggling readers (boys = aged 7-8 46.7%) from public schools. Students received a multi-component program, including repeated readings, word recognition, morphological analysis, text interpretation, and writing skills. Participants received about fifty 45-minute intervention sessions over the school year. Using a difference-in-differences, quasi-experimental between- (intervention and control group) and within-group longitudinal design (three-point measurements), we found that the intervention group progressed significantly faster than a classmate control group (n = 827, boys = aged 7-8, 52.4%) in all reading outcomes (speed, accuracy, and expressiveness). By the end of the school year, differences between the intervention and control groups in accuracy and expressiveness become small but are still large in reading speed. Implications for research and practice are presented at the end of the paper.
KW - Struggling readers
KW - Intervention program
KW - Reading speed
KW - Accuracy
KW - Expressiveness
KW - Difference-in-differences
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psicoe.2023.09.002
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psicoe.2023.09.002
M3 - Article
SN - 2254-4372
VL - 29
SP - 57
EP - 68
JO - Revista de Psicodidáctica
JF - Revista de Psicodidáctica
IS - 1
ER -