The purpose in this study was to explore effects of using a story grammar instruction on the reading comprehension of elementary school students with reading comprehension difficulties. A multiple probe design across participants was employed.Three second grade students with reading comprehension difficulties were chosen as research subjects.Tools adopted by this study were “ Reading Comprehension Test”、”Chinese Reading Comprehension Test”、opinion interview list of the students and teachers.
Result indicated that:
1、Story grammar instruction could improve subjects’reading comprehension ability.
2、Story grammar instruction could maintained subjects’reading comprehension ability.
3、Subjects had showen progress in types of”textually explicit questions”and “textually implicit questions and scriptually explicit questions”on Reading Comprehension Test.
4、There were improvements on subjects’reading comprehension ability showen in” Chinese Reading Comprehension Test”.
5、Subjects and teachers confirmed that story grammar instruction could improve reading comprehension ability.
Key word: story grammar instruction, reading comprehension difficulties.
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The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of vocabulary, word recognition, and reading comprehension of elementary students with reading comprehension difficulties (RCD in short). The spoken and the written vocabulary competence of RCD were also investigated.
Thirty-one fifth graders with RCD were selected with one standard below average in Screening Test for Reading Comprehension Difficulties and normal score of nonverbal IQ. They were measured the Story-telling Test, Vocabulary Test, Synonyms Test, Antonym Test, Polysemy Test, and Chinese Graded Word Recognition Test.
The three major findings were concluded as follows:
1.The spoken vocabulary was not related to the written vocabulary, word recognition, and reading comprehension, but the significant correlations were found between the written vocabulary and word recognition. Both expressive and comprehensive written vocabularies were significantly related to reading comprehension. However, the relation of word recognition and reading comprehension was found to be contributed by the written vocabulary.
2.The numbers of vocabulary per sentence of RCD were significantly smaller than the general students. They produced more words in the situation of telling story with pictures than telling story spontaneously. And RCD fell behind with eleven years old students in the development of verbal syntax. Noun and verb were found to be two most frequent used in spoken vocabularies of RCD. The two least frequent were interjection and onomatopoeia.
3.The pronunciation of vocabulary of RCD was found at 98% accuracy. However, they were frequently self-corrected during test. Pronoun and noun were the first two highest frequent used in expressively written vocabulary. The least frequent were verb and preposition. In the Synonyms, Antonym, and Polysemy Tests, no difference between RCD and the general students were found. Nevertheless, the scores of reading disabilities in the Synonyms Test and Polysemy Test were significantly lower the general students.
According the aforementioned findings, the limitations of this study, and the recommendations to research and practical implementation were made.