Interventions combining repeated reading, modeled/assisted reading, and explicit feedback outperformed control groups in English reading fluency for emergent bilinguals¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-18 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q3 i? Students receiving interventions that combined repeated reading, modeled/assisted reading, and systematic explicit feedback outperformed control peers in English reading fluency. → ev-1

Evidence¶

Taboada Barber 2026¶

Taboada Barber, A., Urbano Aguilar, S., Lopez Rodriguez, A., and Pan, Y. (2026, September). Performing Is Not Teaching: What the Evidence Says About Reading Fluency Practices for Emergent Bilinguals. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/316

q3 · i? · review · r2

The review's synthesis of the Al-Bogami & Alahmadi (2025) and Begeny et al. (2012) intervention studies reports that intervention students "outperformed their peers in the control group in English reading fluency". No effect sizes are printed for this pooled statement.

"the two studies that included repeated reading, modeled/assisted reading, and systematic and explicit feedback in their interventions reported that the students who received the intervention outperformed their peers in the control group in English reading fluency"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Reading and Language — outcome: instruction changes it
Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it

Fluency-building activities for struggling readers in grades 4–9 have strong evidence, based on 33 studies — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
The HELPS one-to-one fluency program significantly outperformed control on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension for grade 2 Spanish-speaking ELLs — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
Two years of multicomponent fluency intervention produced greater word-reading and fluency growth than one year or control, with no comprehension differences — related
An AI-supported reading progress tool produced large effect sizes for speed and accuracy but not significant prosody gains for third-grade EFL learners — related
Goal setting combined with performance feedback showed a positive effect on reading fluency — related

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`title`	`Interventions combining repeated reading, modeled/assisted reading, and explicit feedback outperformed control groups in English reading fluency for emergent bilinguals`
`description`	`Interventions combining repeated reading, modeled/assisted reading, and explicit feedback outperformed control groups in English reading fluency for emergent bilinguals`
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`evidence_strength`	`moderate`
`newest_evidence`	`2026`
`source_checked`	`2026-10-18`
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