Abstract
Abstract The purpose of this study was to measure the growth of reading comprehension skills of fifth‐grade remedial reading students after their exposure to a treatment of creative drama integrated with children's literature reading material. Three groups, each with 17 fifth‐grade remedial reading students, comprised the sample in this study. Group 1 read selected children's literature stories and participated in creative dramatic activities. Group 2 read and discussed, by traditional methods, the same children's literature stories as Group 1. Group 3 continued with their normal Chapter 1 curriculum during the treatment period. The groups were given the Metropolitan Reading Comprehension Test (MAT6) as pre‐ and posttests. Additionally, Groups 1 and 2 were given weekly criterion‐referenced tests. ANOVA showed that Group 1 achieved significant mean gain scores at the .05 level on the MAT6, whereas the other groups showed no gain from pretest to posttest. Analysis of the weekly criterion‐referenced test sho...
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