Effects of Repeated Readings on Instructional- and Mastery-Level Readers

AbstractResearch suggests that repeated readings increase fluency and improve recall for learning-disabled (LD) and nondisabled instructional-level readers. The purpose of this study was to establish the comparability of these effects for instructional- and mastery-level readers. Twenty-five LD students were matched on fluency and comprehension with 25 nondisabled students, as determined by performance on two screening passages. In both groups, 17 students read the screening passages at instructional level and 8 students read them at mastery level. All the subjects read two additional passages, one passage once and one three times. In final readings, measures of fluency and accuracy were obtained, and after each final reading, measures of recall were derived. These data were analyzed in 2 x 2 x 2 ANOVAs. Significant main effects were obtained for number of readings on all three measures, and for level on fluency and accuracy. A significant classification (LD or nondisabled) by readings interaction on accu...

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