... academic areas, including reading, math, language, and spelling. Other outcomes were also examined, including affective measures, ability measures, and teacher and parent perceptions. Moderation analyses ...
This article examined the use of direct instruction for teaching the use of prepositions to students with intellectual disabilities. Two African-American middle school boys were included in the study. ...
... to calculate effect sizes. Twenty studies with 95 separate comparisons were identified. Slightly more than half of the studies (n=11) dealt with reading, 5 involved mathematics, 2 regarded language, and ...
... usual language arts curriculum or 30 minutes of instruction with the Direct Instruction program, Funnix Beginning Reading. Instruction for the Funnix group was provided by high school-aged tutors, who ...
This study examined the effect of using the Language Arts strand of the Reading Mastery Signature Edition program as a supplement to non-Direct Instruction reading programs with English Language Learner ...
... additional instruction in their regular Language Arts program. Students came from six different classrooms. All instruction for students in the Control group was provided by their classroom teachers and ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of English Language Learner (ELL) students in grades 4-7 in three schools. Student achievement was measured using the ...
This study examined student response to remedial reading intervention, with comparisons made between students from differing language backgrounds and across instructional programs. Struggling readers who ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of English Language Learner (ELL) students in one middle school. CR was implemented in grades 6-8 during the 2001-2002 ...
... their skill level and retell the story. Student achievement was assessed using a phonics test, oral reading, miscue analysis, story retelling, observations of language use, and interviews. Results indicated ...
This study examined the effect of the Direct Instruction program, Corrective Reading, on the reading and language skills of a seven year old boy with high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. The student ...
... through 3rd grade classrooms at the Nay Ah Shing School at the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year. Following the initial success of RMP, the Language for Learning program was implemented in pre-kindergarten ...
... 1998-1999 school year. Additionally, the school implemented Language for Learning in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, and Corrective Reading was administered to struggling readers in grades four ...
... at the Wilson Primary School in grades one to three for the 1998-1999 school year. Additionally, Language for Learning was implemented in kindergarten classrooms and used with English Language Learners ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading on high school students with learning disabilities’ reading ability, pass rate on the Gateway Language Arts exam, and their perceptions of reading. ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction language and reading programs on the reading achievement of kindergarten and elementary students. In response to less than half of Honey Creek Continuous ...
... and an increase of the percentage of students from both groups on state reading standards. Teachers and reading coaches reported English language learners (ELL) experiencing success unseen before. They ...
This study examined the effect of supplemental instruction on the reading achievement of a diverse sample of students at-risk for reading difficulty in comparison to a similar group of students who received ...
This article describes a program evaluation of the Direct Instruction program, Language for Writing, which was implemented in a total of 10 second through fifth grade classrooms across the United States. ...
This study compared the effect of the Language for Learning (LL) program when delivered at a slow-pace and the recommended fast-pace. The study specifically sought to compare the effect of the two approaches ...
for their students on mastery of material covered in the Reading Mastery program.
Abstract: This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction programs (Reading Mastery, Language for Learning, Corrective ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction and Core Knowledge programs in six elementary schools during the implementation of the four-year Baltimore Curriculum Project. Each of the six schools ...
... African American and Caucasian students in both math and reading. Direct Instruction was implemented in all grades including kindergarten, with students receiving either Language for Learning or Reading ...
... administered annually to measure student achievement. In 1994, two years before the implementation of RM, no fifth-grade students scored satisfactory or above in the reading, writing, and language usage ...
This study reports on the results of an evaluation of the implementation of Reading Mastery (RM) and Open Court (OC) in the Fort Worth Independent School District, replacing a whole language program. Principals ...
This article discusses the preliminary results of the first four years of the implementation of Direct Instruction (DI) reading programs in six Baltimore elementary schools. DI programs in reading, language, ...
This article reviewed the evaluation of the Alliance of Quality Schools project in Broward County Florida. The project was conducted over five years and was designed to increase the academic achievement ...
This follow-up study examined the effect of supplemental reading instruction for students in kindergarten through third grade, one year after the conclusion of the intervention. Students were selected ...
... for pre- and posttest measures.. Prior to the introduction of RM, students were instructed with a whole language program. Pre and posttest data were available for 44 first-grade and 63 second grade students. ...
... of free or reduced lunch, ethnicity, and English language proficiency) and average achievement (meeting the state mandated reading performance requirements). Assessments varied over the years, with individual ...
This article articulates the alignment of Reading Mastery with research-validated features of effective instruction in the areas of oral language, decoding, and reading comprehension. The second part ...
This study examined the effects of the Language for Learning program on language skills of kindergarteners. When the results of students receiving instruction via Language for Learning were compared to ...
... Instruction with Reasoning and Writing occurred for six weeks, and pretest and posttest scores on the Test of Written Language-2 (TOWL-2) were used to indicate program effects. As a group, results indicate ...
... Writing, while the comparison group received non-explicit instruction, typical of most gifted programs. Scores on the Test of Written Language-3 (TOWL-3) and the New Jersey Test of Reasoning Skills (NJTRS) ...
This study examined the effects of the Language for Learning curriculum on preschool students with and without developmental delays. Pretest and posttest scores were compared to those of two comparison ...
... Mastery, Corrective Reading, and Language for Learning. Teachers were interviewed for their opinions on the implementation and effectiveness of the programs. Student achievement was tracked and measured ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction (DI) reading and language programs on the academic achievement of elementary students (Grades 3-6). DI programs were implemented in three elementary ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction (DI) language and reading programs on the academic achievement of students for whom English was a second language. A comparison school in the same school ...
This study examined the effect of supplemental reading instruction with Direct Instruction (DI) on the reading achievement of students in kindergarten through third grade who were below grade level. The ...
... school districts to participate in this study. Students in one school district received instruction with Corrective Reading and students in the other received instruction with a traditional, whole language-based ...
This study examines the implementation and effect of the Direct Instruction (DI) programs Reading Mastery (RM) and Language for Learning (LL) in an elementary school with a large percentage of low-SES ...
This study examines the implementation of the Direct Instruction (DI) programs Reading Mastery (RM) and Language for Learning (LL) in an elementary school with a large percentage of low-SES students. These ...
... the DI reading program. The researcher focused on students’ vocabulary, comprehension, and spelling language achievement. The author reported no difference between the two groups in scores on the Georgia ...
This article describes how Direct Instruction programs can help at-risk students who are academically behind catch up to their peers. At-risk students who are academically behind are forced to learn substantially ...
This study looked at the value of a developmental and transactional perspective within the context of teaching children to read. The authors examine results of studies of children with advanced language ...
This study compared the designs and efficacy of seven research-based reading and language arts programs. The programs examined included Cooperative Integrated Reading and Comprehension (CIRC), Direct Instruction ...
... expression. The Test of Written Language (TOWL) was administered for pre- and posttest measures. Results from the TOWL indicate that students demonstrated significant gains between pre- and posttest measures. ...
... from the CAT and the MAT indicated that on average, students gained 2.5 grade levels per school year and maintained this track record for ten years. Over that ten-year period, the average gains in language ...