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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Lit Res. 2006 Jan 1;38(4):357–387. doi: 10.1207/s15548430jlr3804_1

TABLE 1.

Percentage of Observed Segments In Which Classroom Activity Occurred

Activity Type Control FORI Wide
Grouping Whole classroom 67.4 76.6 68.9
Small group 30.1 10.9 16.9
Pairs 4.4 15.3 18.0
Individual 13.6 15.3 8.7
Subject Reading 63.1 84.7 84.7
Other language arts 74.3 28.2 39.9
Intervention activity Use of connected text 43.2 46.8 54.6
Listening to teacher read 16.0 16.9 17.5
Partner reading 3.9 10.9 18.0
Echo reading 0.0 16.9 19.7
Repeated reading 3.9 26.6 15.9
Choral reading 4.4 8.9 6.6
Question types Factual 41.3 28.6 45.3
Reflective or inferential 10.2 16.2 22.4
Vocabulary 10.7 17.3 26.8
Word decoding 40.3 23.2 9.7
Round robin rending 16.0 3.2 4.9
Other 52.9 32.2 30.5
Typea of materials Basal narratives 32.5 36.7 37.3
Trade hook narratives 21.3 19.0 28.4
Basal informational 2.9 8.9 8.2
Trade book informational 3.9 0.8 19.1
Worksheets 32.5 26.2 30.6
Board/onchart work 32.0 20.2 8.2
Other 6.8 17.3 10.3
Teacher activity Telling 65.0 65.7 55.7
Question and answer 49.0 46.0 51.4
Listening 38.3 52.4 51.4
Coaching 16.5 15.3 10.9
Read aloud 10.7 25.8 33.3
Other 34.0 21.4 23.0
Expected student response Reading 28.2 47.2 0.3
Reading with turn-taking 23.3 14.1 17.5
Oral responding 16.0 18.5 13.7
Oral turn-taking 42.2 34.7 40.4
Listening 57.7 58.5 50.8
Writing 31.1 22.6 20.8
Other 14.0 20.1 8.7

Note. FORI = fluency-oriented reading instruction.