Text-fading based training leads to transfer effects on children's sentence reading fluency.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies used a text-fading procedure as a training tool with the goal to increase silent reading fluency (i.e., proficient reading rate and comprehension). In recently published studies, this procedure resulted in lasting reading enhancements for adult and adolescent research samples. However, studies working with children reported mixed results. While reading rate improvements were observable for Dutch reading children in a text-fading training study, reading fluency improvements in standardized reading tests post-training attributable to the fading manipulation were not detectable. These results raise the question of whether text-fading training is not effective for children or whether research design issues have concealed possible transfer effects. Hence, the present study soug

SUBMITTER: Nagler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322541 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature