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Helping readers who have fallen behind
Author(s) -
Merrett Frank
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.00059
Subject(s) - praise , remedial education , reading (process) , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , computer science , linguistics , social psychology , philosophy
Some 10 years ago an article was published in this journal describing an approach called Pause, Prompt and Praise (Wheldall, Merrett and Colmar 1987) for those who were making slow progress in reading. This involves using well‐structured procedures in one‐to‐one tutoring, using peers, teachers, parents or other adults as tutors. More recently, there has been a recognition that many pupils fail to reach expected standards in reading at Key Stage 2. Likewise, there are many students entering secondary schools who, although they can read simple texts, are not capable of reading reasonably quickly and with enough understanding to profit fully from the books with which they are asked to work at this stage. It seemed opportune at this time to remind teachers of these well‐researched and very successful remedial techniques and to describe some of the more recent practical studies and findings from research.