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Sustained silent reading and students' reading habits
High school students who engaged in sustained silent reading (SSR) enjoyed reading more but didn't spend more personal time on it.

Early assessments miss reading problems that emerge in grades 2-4
Late-emerging disabilities have prevalence of 36%.


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ADOLESCENT READING
Middle school intervention on reading

Reading strategies to help adolescent students understand textbooks

Struggling readers benefit when they tutor younger struggling readers

More focus on disciplinary literacy needed to improve adolescent reading

READING ASSESSMENT

Don't judge individual students by standards-based test results, study says

Caution needed in use of Observation Survey

Oral reading fluency predicts students' performance on statewide tests

Reliability of informal reading inventories

Study of four reading interventions fails to answer $10 million question

Most DIBELS subtests not predictive of reading comprehension

Oral reading rate not a good measure of reading comprehension, study warns
MOTIVATION TO READ
Comprehension program focuses on motivation to read

Grade 2 boys respond to boy-friendly books, but male readers have little impact on attitudes

Nonfiction books motivate reluctant middle-school readers


WRITING AND VOCABULARY
Adapt writing instruction to students' own writing strategies, researchers say

Often neglected, vocabulary drives reading comprehension, study reports

What's the best way to teach writing?


SUMMER READING

4th-grade summer reading program

Grade 1-5 summer reading program fails to boost fall reading achievement scores


READING AND BEHAVIOR
Interventions for reading or behavior improves both

Language impairments related to reading and behavior problems


TUTORING
Tutoring improves reading among struggling first graders

Teacher supervision key to success of tutor model for early readers

Low-cost volunteer tutoring program

Benefits of training for peer tutors

EARLY LITERACY
The slippery slope of an early literacy gap

Kansas Center finds early success with 3-tiered intervention for students with reading problems

Best predictors of early reading achievement

Teachers need to be more accurate in identifying early literacy problems

Study demonstrates how to profile struggling readers to target needs