Instructional Strategies to Enhance Reading Achievement
January 15, 2005 |
Effectiveness of Instructional Strategies to Enhance the Reading Achievement of At-Risk-Students: Review of Literature
by Leila Christenbury (January 2005)
Certainly researchers and teachers are in agreement regarding the components that are needed to read successfully and have a good idea of the skills that proficient readers consistently use. When children or older students are not able to read well or fluently or to comprehend their reading, the specific intervention strategies – and their duration and intensity – to bring those readers up to skill level remains an area of serious debate. This report will attempt to provide some background regarding that controversy and to look at selected recent research and its implications.