Submitted by MAIRA ANELLI MARTINS null (maira.anelli@hotmail.com.br) on 2018-03-11T19:59:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_MairaMartins_repositório.pdf: 4695898 bytes, checksum: 9d70a9ff88173b5ffc3de74205b0517e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Satie Tagara (satie@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-03-12T16:23:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 martins_ma_dr_mar.pdf: 4695898 bytes, checksum: 9d70a9ff88173b5ffc3de74205b0517e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-12T16:23:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 martins_ma_dr_mar.pdf: 4695898 bytes, checksum: 9d70a9ff88173b5ffc3de74205b0517e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Observando que uma grande parte das dificuldades dos escolares se relaciona com a difícil tarefa da leitura, este estudo tem como objetivo realizar a tradução e adaptação cultural do Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies (HELPS), programa de intervenção com a fluência de leitura. A pesquisa foi realizada em dois estudos. O Estudo 1 teve por objetivo a tradução e adaptação cultural do Programa HELPS. O procedimento metodológico seguiu técnicas e literatura especializada na adaptação de instrumentos psicológicos de uma cultura para outra. O Estudo 2 teve por objetivo verificar a eficácia do Programa HELPS-PB em escolares do 3º ao 5º ano. Participaram desse estudo 30 escolares de ambos os gêneros, na faixa etária de 8 anos a 12 anos de idade – distribuídos em dois grupos, o grupo experimental, com 15 escolares que foram submetidos à intervenção e o grupo controle, com 15 escolares que não foram submetidos à intervenção (cinco escolares para cada ano, em cada grupo). Esses escolares foram submetidos a todos os procedimentos do Programa HELPS-PB, seguindo protocolo específico do Programa, com oito estratégias baseadas em evidências científicas: leituras cronometradas repetidas, modelação, correção de erros na frase, estímulos verbais para o escolar ler com fluência e para compreender o que leu, definição de metas, feedback do desempenho e o sistema motivacional por recompensa. Os escolares também foram submetidos a pré e pós-testagem com avaliação da fluência de leitura oral (número de palavras lidas corretamente e incorretamente por minuto) e compreensão leitora (teste com perguntas de múltipla escolha). A coleta de dados foi realizada na própria escola, com a aplicação de 30 sessões do Programa HELPS-PB em 10 minutos por dia, com a frequência de 3 dias por semana. Os resultados foram analisados estatisticamente e foi possível verificar que a média do desempenho dos escolares do grupo experimental nos escores de palavras lidas corretamente por minuto, após serem submetidos ao Programa HELPS-PB, foi superior na pós-testagem para todos os escolares. Os resultados também demonstraram que apesar dos escolares do grupo experimental não terem diminuído os escores de palavras lidas incorretamente por minuto, todos os anos escolares obtiveram no pós-teste escores dentro da meta, ou seja, não realizaram escores acima de 3 erros, que foi o critério máximo considerado para erros em uma leitura. Em relação a compreensão leitora os dados demonstram que somente o 3º ano do grupo experimental apresentou diferença estatisticamente significante entre a pré e a pós-testagem, enquanto que para o 4º e 5º ano observou-se apenas uma discreta diminuição dos erros. A hipótese do estudo foi confirmada; a partir dos resultados – com a aplicação do Programa HELPS-PB – os escolares não fluentes melhoraram o seu desempenho em leitura e – por consequência – o desempenho na compreensão leitora. Conclui-se que os procedimentos de adaptação e tradução do programa HELPS-PB foram adequados para aplicação com a população escolar brasileira a medida que levaram em consideração a cultura e a realidade desse país. / Observing that a large amount of problems of the students is related to the difficult task of reading, this study aims to perform the translation and cultural adaptation of Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies (HELPS), an intervention program towards reading fluency. The research was conducted in two studies. Study 1 aimed at the translation and cultural adaptation of HELPS Program. The methodological procedure followed techniques and literature specialized in the adaptation of the psychological instruments from one culture to another. Study 2 aimed to verify the effectiveness of HELPS-PB Program including students from 3rd to 5th grade. A total of 30 students, both genders, aged from 8 to 12 years old, were divided into two groups: the experimental group included 15 students who were submitted to intervention, and the control group, included 15 students who were not submitted to intervention (five students of each grade, in each group). These students were submitted to all the procedures of HELPS-PB Program, following a specific protocol of the Program, with eight strategies based on scientific evidence: repeated timed readings, modeling, correction of errors in the sentence, verbal stimuli for the students to read fluently and understand what they have read, definition of goals, performance feedback, and the motivational reward system. The students were also submitted to pre- and post-test with oral reading fluency assessment (number of words read correctly and incorrectly, per minute) and reading comprehension (multiplechoice test). Data collection was performed at the school, itself, with the application of 30 sessions of the HELPS-PB Program, 10 minutes per day, 3 days per week. The results were statistically analyzed and it was possible to verify that the mean performance of the students in the experimental group, concerning the scores of the correctly read words per minute, after being submitted to HELPS-PB Program, was higher during post-test for all students. The results also showed that even though the students in the experimental group did not decrease the scores of words read incorrectly per minute, all the school grades had post-test scores within the goal, that is, they did not score above 3 errors, which was the maximum criterion considered for errors in reading. Regarding reading comprehension, the data show that only the 3rd grade of the experimental group presented statistically significant difference between the pre- and posttest, while for the 4th and 5th grade, there was only a slight decrease in errors. The hypothesis of the study was confirmed; from the results - with the application of HELPS-PB Program - non-fluent students improved their performance in reading and - as consequence - the performance in reading comprehension. It can be concluded that the adaptation and translation procedures of HELPS-PB program was appropriate for applying to the Brazilian school population as they took into account the culture and reality of that country. / 140304/2014-2

The authors suggest that students need to become physically as well as academically involved in their learning. In this light, there are procedures presented for having students make stick puppets that can be used in a variety of learning activities including, but not limited to, readers' theatre and story retelling. We propose that fables can provide a good foundation for developing activities featuring stick puppets, speaking and reading fluency oriented activities. We enncourage teachers and librarians to help make the puppets in order to incorporate first-hand knowledge of the procedures for their students.

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Readers’ theater can provide an enjoyable foundation for students to become more fluent readers. In addition, children must become physically and emotionally, as well as academically, involved in learning to read. Procedures arepresented for having students perform plays and engage in 1. artistic endeavors, 2. performance reading, 3. social interaction, 4. repeated readings, and 5. story retelling. Suggestions presented herein are appropriate for application in a variety of learning environments and with many types of literature.

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This study investigated oral reading fluency development among Hispanic high school English-language learners. Participants included 11 males and 9 females from first-year, second-year, and third-year English language arts classes. The pre-post experimental study, which was conducted during a four-week ESL summer program, included a treatment and a control group. The treatment group received a combination of components, including modified repeated reading with self-voice listening and oral dictation output from a speech recognition program. Each day, students performed a series of tasks, including dictation of part of the previous day’s passage; listening to and silently reading a new passage; dictating and correcting individual sentences from the new passage in the speech recognition environment; dictating the new passage as a whole without making corrections; and finally, listening to their own voice from their recorded dictation. This sequence was repeated in the subsequent sessions. Thus, this intervention was a technology-enhanced variation of repeated reading with a pronunciation dictation segment. Research questions focused on improvements in oral reading accuracy and rate, facility with the application, student perceptions toward the technology for reading, and the reliability of the speech recognition program. The treatment group improved oral reading accuracy by 50%, retained and transferred pronunciation of 55% of new vocabulary, and increased oral reading rate 16 words-correct-per-minute. Students used the intervention independently after three sessions. This independence may have contributed to students’ self-efficacy as they perceived improvements in their pronunciation, reading in general, and reported an increased liking of school. Students initially had a very positive perception toward using the technology for reading, but this perception decreased over the four weeks from 2.7 to 2.4 on a 3 point scale. The speech recognition program was reliable 94% of the time. The combination of the summer school program and intervention component stacking supported students’ gains in oral reading fluency, suggesting that further study into applications of the intervention is warranted. Acceleration of oral reading skills and vocabulary acquisition for ELLs contributes to closing the reading gap between ELLs and native-English speakers. Fluent oral reading is strongly correlated with reading comprehension, and reading comprehension is essential for ELLs to be successful in school. Literacy support tools such as this intervention can play a role in ameliorating English acquisition faster than the rate attained through traditional practices.

Fluent reading has been described as the ability to read a passage with accuracy, at a steady rate, with minimal hesitancy, and good comprehension (Grabe, 2009; Kuhn, Schwanenflugel, & Meisinger, 2010). Dysfluent reading can affect motivation for reading in English language learners, thereby limiting access to a wealth of language input from written texts (Taguchi, Gorsuch, & Sasamoto, 2006). Extensive research of repeated reading in L1 settings has been shown to increase reading fluency (Samuels, 1979; National Reading Panel, 2000), while comparatively little research has been done on repeated reading in L2 settings (Grabe, 2009). The objective of this eye-tracking study was to accurately document lower-level and higher-level reading processes in an immediate repeated reading exercise to observe how repeated reading affects reading fluency in adult English language learners. In our study, 30 students in an intensive English program in the United States read three short expository texts three times each. Eye-tracking showed significant increases in reading fluency measures in both lower-level and higher-level reading functions. For example, average first fixation duration decreased by 15 ms from the first to the third reading and average late dwell time decreased by 40 ms from the first to third reading. Repeated reading is an exercise that should be considered by educators to help English language learners increase their reading fluency with immediate repeated reading of expository texts.

Large numbers of children in the United States are not functioning at adequate levels of literacy. Students who have weak reading proficiency skills are identified as at-risk; failure to acquire competency early in their schooling adversely affects performance in all academic fields and limits their potential for achievement in life. There is an extensive knowledge base about the skills and strategies children must learn in order to read well. Effective fluency and comprehension strategies need to be taught to help students become powerful, active readers who are in control of their learning. This study evaluated a structured classroom model for delivery of small group reading instruction called the Intermediate Extended Literacy Routine (IELR). The IELR is a model for delivery of explicit reading instruction that incorporates fluency instruction with the intent to provide a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. This study examined the effects of the IELR on the achievement of third graders designated as struggling readers. A repeated single subject experimental design was used. Thirteen students in two classrooms at the same west-central Florida school were given the IELR 4 days a week for 8 weeks. The IELR incorporated explicit strategy instruction and was delivered in the form of focused mini-lessons that targeted specific reading strategies the researcher identified as lacking in the subjects. Assessments of performance were made with timed readings, running records, narrative retellings, and the school district's reading comprehension common assessment tool. Results are presented in tabular and graphic form for analysis. The IELR had a positive effect on reading rate (measured in words read per minute), reading accuracy and increased instructional level assessments: students who received the IELR maintained or increased their instructional level on running record assessments and showed evidence of increased reading rate on timed readings. Reading comprehension, measured by narrative retellings, did not improve for most students over the course of the study. Recommendations for future research include the use of a control group; oral (rather than written) retelling measures to assess comprehension, and a longer duration of IELR application to gauge its effectiveness.

The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the effects, if any, of a supplemental phonics curriculum, Saxon Phonics, on the reading achievement of first-grade students in one mountain-west, semirural, school district. The design was casual-comparative and ex post facto, and answered the questions: (1) Do students taught using a traditional basal program and students taught using both the traditional basal program and a supplemental phonics program (control vs. treatment) differ on selected end-of-year reading achievement scores (i.e., portions of the DIBELS Next assessment—nonsense word fluency [NWF], oral reading fluency [ORF], and accuracy [ACC])? (2) do any possible interactions among selected variables (i.e., instructional program, gender, and beginning-of-year reading level) exist related to performance differences on end-of-year reading achievement scores among students receiving reading instruction with or without a supplemental phonics program? The independent variables were the instructional program Saxon Phonics, a traditional/basal reading curriculum and the reading levels of low, medium, and high. The dependent variables were oral reading fluency, accuracy and nonsense word fluency, measured by the DIBELS Next assessment. The 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 DIBELS Next data were collected from the school district database upon approval from the Institutional Review Board in January of 2017. A mixed effects model was utilized to explore the relationship between use of the selected supplemental phonics curriculum and selected reading achievement scores of first-grade students. Results revealed that there was no significant difference between the control and treatment groups, though there was a statistically significant improvement of low readers in the treatment group over the control group.