A Critical Examination of the READ 180 Program Among a Sample of English as a Second Language Students and Special Education Students

Three research questions were addressed. Are there differences in the outcome measures across the intervention group and the comparison group conditions? Are there differences in the outcome measures between the ESL and special education groups? And are there differences in the outcome measures across a selected set of demographic variables, including gender and race?

Story structure is a procedure used extensively in reading comprehension of
narrative texts. ... content and organization of stories thus improves
comprehension of stories as measured by the ability of the reader to answer
questions and recall ...