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Appendix C: Interventions to Develop the Component Literacy Skills of Low-Literate Adults
Pages 407-416

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... Appendix C Interventions to Develop the Component Literacy Skills of Low-Literate Adults 407
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... (SD = 13.7 (range 16-76 years) Gender Intervention = Intervention = Descriptive = Descriptive 67% female 75% female 67% female Interventio Intervention = 66% female Reading Level Intervention screened By NRS reading NRS low- Descriptive to be 3rd-to-5th- levels intermediate level comprehen grade level M = 72.3 ( • BE beginner A Nelson Reading n = 63 Comprehension Interventio • BE intermediate A (standard score for comprehen n = 284 6th grade spring)
From page 409...
... Descriptive = 60% female Descriptive = Descriptive = 44% female 67% female Intervention = 63% female Intervention = 26% female Descriptive: WRMT-R Passage Screened for below Descriptive: = 50% "poor evel comprehension standard score 7th grade level readers"; 50% "typical M = 72.3 (SD 22.8) readers" g n Intervention: WRMT-R Passage Intervention Standard scores e for comprehension (standard scores)
From page 410...
... Summa 4. Decoding, (compr comprehension, extensive reading, and fluency Intensity and Planned: 2 hrs/day × 42 hrs of classroom Duration Whole-gro Duration 4 days/wk for up to instruction over approximately 8 mos instruction 100 hrs over 12-16 wks Hrs of reading • Bridgin Minimum for instruction M = 57 • Fluency analyses: 60 hrs, with • Predict at least 20 hrs after • Summa course midpoint Attrition 50% 38% • Bridgin • Fluency • Predict • Summa
From page 411...
... 1. Corrective reading Corporation 2.
From page 412...
... Measurement Construct Greenberg Levy MacArthur Mellard Phonological CTOPP Elision -- -- CTOPP El Processing CTOPP blending CTOPP ble CTOPP rapid letter CTOPP ra naming CTOPP ra CTOPP ra Decoding and TOWRE phonemic TOWRE phonemic TOWRE phonemic TOWRE p Word Recognition decoding efficiency decoding efficiency decoding efficiency* decoding e TOWRE sight word TOWRE sight word WJ-R word attack TOWRE s efficiency efficiency efficiency WJ-R letter-word WJ-III letter-word Adams & Huggins identification WRMT-R identification irregular word WJ-R letter-sound WRMT-R reading task WJ-III word attack*
From page 413...
... RAN digits, letters eading Reading fluency passages NAAL BRS oral passage word from QRI reading GORT-4 fluency g CASAS reading WJ-III passage WJ-R passage comprehension n comprehension* WRMT-R passage Gates-MacGinite reading comprehension WJ-III oral comprehension comprehension GORT-4 comprehension WRAT3 reading achievement GORT-3 continued
From page 414...
... BEST Plus = Basic English Skills Test (Center for Applied Linguistics) BNT = Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass, and Weintraub, 1983, 2001)
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... VSI = Visual Symbol Imagery (Bell, 1997) hildren -- WAIS-III = Wechsler Adult Intelligences Scale III (Wechsler, 1997)
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... . Neural changes following remediation of adult developmental dyslexia.


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