Literature Review on Intervention in Children with Poor Reading Comprehension

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Sunhee Ko
2020 ◽  
pp. 002221942098324
Author(s):  
Ana Taboada Barber ◽  
Susan Lutz Klauda ◽  
Weimeng Wang ◽  
Kelly B. Cartwright ◽  
Laurie E. Cutting

This study centered on emergent bilingual (EB) students with specific reading comprehension deficits (S-RCD), that is, with poor reading comprehension despite solid word identification skills. The participants were 209 students in Grades 2 to 4, including both EBs and English Monolinguals (EMs) with and without S-RCD. Mean comparisons indicated that EBs and EMs with S-RCD showed weaknesses relative to typically developing (TD) readers in oral language, word identification, inference making, and reading engagement, but not in executive functioning. Longitudinal analyses indicated that across two academic years S-RCD persisted for 41% of EBs and EMs alike. Altogether, the study extends research on EBs with S-RCD by identifying variables beyond oral language that may account for their reading comprehension difficulties and providing insight into the extent to which their reading comprehension and word identification performance levels evolve during elementary school. Furthermore, the findings point to the importance of early identification and intervention for weaknesses in reading comprehension and its component elements in both EBs and EMS.


2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Elwér ◽  
Stefan Gustafson ◽  
Brian Byrne ◽  
Richard K. Olson ◽  
Janice M. Keenan ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Boyle

This study examined the effects of a cognitive mapping strategy on the literal and inferential reading comprehension of students with mild disabilities — learning disabilities (LD) and educable mental retardation (EMR). Thirty students with mild disabilities who exhibited poor reading comprehension, as evidenced by low reading comprehension scores on standardized tests, were matched on three variables (disability, grade, and reading achievement) and assigned to either an experimental or a control group. Through a strategy format, students in the experimental group were taught to independently create cognitive maps from reading passages. Students who were taught the cognitive mapping strategy demonstrated substantial gains in both literal and inferential comprehension measures with below-grade level reading passages as well as on-grade level reading passages. The limitations of the research and implications of this strategy for classroom application are discussed.


Cognition ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Van Dyke ◽  
Clinton L. Johns ◽  
Anuenue Kukona

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Horowitz ◽  
S. Jay Samuels

Poor reading comprehension may result from a general comprehension problem, a decoding problem, or a combination of these problems. Using a counterbalanced design, 38 good and poor sixth-grade readers read aloud and listened to easy and hard texts. Immediately after reading and listening, students orally retold what they had read or heard. Their recalls were scored for number of idea units produced. Results indicated no difference in listening comprehension between good and poor readers for either easy or hard texts, but a significant difference in oral reading comprehension in favor of good readers on both easy and hard texts. The finding of no difference in listening suggests that the poor readers in this sample did not have a general comprehension problem, while their poor oral reading performance indicates that they did have a decoding problem. These findings support a more complex comprehension process model of listening and reading than has typically been described in the literature.


Author(s):  
Wendy Nathalie Sánchez Cano ◽  
Gioconda Monserrate Avilés Villón

Our experience as teachers of a public university with multi-level classes with students of different levels of English knowledge, abilities or backgrounds; where educators must face the challenge of multi-level classrooms, such as finding the appropriate teaching strategy, resources and materials; showed that it was necessary to explore the benefits of Cooperative Learning as a way to transform the multi-level class from a challenge into an advantage. In the present paper, the role of Cooperative Learning as an effective tool to teach reading in an EFL multi-level class is investigated. The following literature review attempts to demonstrate this theory and hopes that the information gathered from this study would assist educational authorities to review the curriculum with the aim of incorporating reading comprehension cooperative learning strategies in multilevel classes.


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