Over the past decade, fluent reading has come to be seen as a central component of skilled
reading and a driving force in the literacy curriculum. However, much of this focus has …

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion in our understanding of dyslexia (or
specific reading disability), the most common and most carefully studied of the learning …

In this chapter, the authors present an effort to confront 3 large lacunae in the research on
reading fluency: definition, component structure, and theory-based intervention. They …

Basic reading proficiency is key to success in all content areas, but attending to students'
literacy development remains a challenge for many teachers, especially after the primary …

Educational accountability and its counterpart, high-stakes assessment, are at the forefront
of the educational agenda in this era of standards-based reform. In this article, we examine …

This is the first book to examine in-depth the crucial role of the speed of information
processing in the brain in determining reading fluency in both normal and dyslexic readers …

We examined theoretical issues concerning the development of reading fluency and
language proficiency in 390 English Language Learners (ELLs,) and 149 monolingual …

Identification of Learning Disabilities: Research to Practice is the remarkable product of a
learning disabilities summit conference convened by the Office of Special Education …

Light is universally understood as essential to the human condition. Yet light quality varies
substantially in nature and in controlled environments leading to questions of which artificial …

This study examined the relative contributions of phonological awareness, orthographic
pattern recognition, and rapid letter naming to fluent word and connected-text reading within …