Download or read book Comparing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Oral and Written Retellings as Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension Performance written by Rebecca Ailina Schisler and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results indicated that comprehension gains were made for all five of the students who participated in the study. Specifically, for the participant group, the oral and written retelling procedures led to similarly greater gains in overall comprehension when compared to the passage review procedure. The oral retelling procedure was found to be the most efficient in terms of increasing comprehension performance. Preferences for instructional approaches varied among participants. Social validity results indicated that all three instructional techniques are socially valid ways to teach reading comprehension skills to students identified as having reading comprehension difficulties.