Phrase-Reading Training and the Reading Achievement of Slow Learners: An Experimental Study'
same reading level. It was determined that there were significant increases in both reading rate and comprehension in the phrase-training programs without substantial changes in reading vocabulary. One of the questions suggested by these initial investigations was: To what extent might students of lower intellectual-educational ability benefit from a phrase-training program? An experiment was designed to determine whether phrase-reading training would be useful with slower learners in the ninth and tenth grades by comparing a phrase-reading program with another special reading procedure. The investigation differed from the previous studies with respect to the subjects’ age, grade placement, program placement (Slow Learner group) and intellectual-educational ability. Ninth and tenth grade slow learners were used as subjects since the phrase-reading programs had a third-grade vocabulary, and younger students designated as slow learners might have had difficulty reading words on this level.