Corrective Feedback of Oral Decoding Errors for Diverse Learners with Reading Disabilities: The Effects of Two Methods on Reading Fluency.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two corrective feedback methods, word-supply and phonics-based, on the oral reading fluency of students with mild disabilities. The participants included three students in the fourth grade who were diagnosed with a Specific Learning Disability (SLD) or Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorder (EBD). A single subject modified parallel treatments design (Alberto & Troutman, 2008) was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the two types of feedback methods (e.g., word-supply and phonics-based) on the students oral reading fluency skills. In the word-supply condition, students were provided the whole word upon a miscue, while in the phonics-based condition students were provided the word phoneme-by-phoneme in a sounded-out fashion. Feedback procedures were implemented upon the occurrence of word miscues during the oral reading. Dependent measures included the number of correct words per minute, recorded as a rate on individual passages taken from leveled readers. Results of the fluency data collected on the errors corrected using either the word-supply or phonics-based feedback method revealed that the word-supply feedback condition was slightly superior for two of the three students. Reading achievement has long been an issue of high priority in American schools for students with and without disabilities. Students must learn to read fluently to obtain meaning from written text in order to succeed in comprehending a variety of content areas in school and in their professional and social lives

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