Improvement in Reading Achievement Through Perceptual-Motor Training |
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| Authors: | Clarence C. McCormick Janice Nelson Schnobrich S. Willard Footlik Betty Poetker |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Reading Research Foundation , Chicago , Illinois , USA;2. Lisle Public Schools , Lisle , Illinois , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Forty-two underachieving grade 1 children matched for age, sex, IQ, and Lee-Clark reading grade level were randomly assigned to one of three groups. One group received perceptual-motor training, the second received exercises from the regular physical education curriculum, and the third group served as a control. After seven weeks of training (two periods a week) reading achievement was reassessed. The experimental group was found to have made statistically significant gains, while the other two groups had made no such gains. |
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