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- 1. Corrective Reading: An evidence-based remedial reading intervention
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the phonological processes of 206 elementary and secondary students identified with serious reading problems. A battery of phonological tests ...
- Created on 09 October 2015
- 2. Effects of a computer based beginning reading program on young children
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- This study examined the effect of the Funnix Beginning Reading program on the reading achievement of kindergarten and first grade students. Fifteen students were instructed with the computer based Direct ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 3. Reading Achievement in a Direct Instruction School and a “Three Tier” Curriculum School
- (Publication)
- ... education students than for general education students. Similar results occurred with the measures of onset recognition fluency, phonemic segmentation fluency, and nonsense word fluency, consistently favoring ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 4. No Child Left Behind according to script: The efficacy of Reading Mastery
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- This study examines the effect of Reading Mastery on the reading achievement of six low-performing third grade students over ten weeks. The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) test was ...
- Created on 28 May 2017
- 5. The efficacy of utilizing a phonics treatment package with middle school deaf and hard-of-hearing students
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- This study examined whether the Corrective Reading-Decoding curriculum could be altered in order to meet the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and therefore, result in the students’ ability to ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 6. Colonial High School: Orlando, Florida
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of high school students. In response to high school students reading far below grade level, the CR program was implemented ...
- Created on 30 March 2017
- 7. Increasing the reading achievement of at-risk children through Direct Instruction: Evaluation of the Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence (RITE)
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- This study evaluated the Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence (RITE) program, which addressed at-risk students’ failure to develop basic reading skills. The evaluation compared the scores of all K-2 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 8. The effects of the intensity of phonological awareness instruction on the acquisition of literacy skills
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- This study compared three groups consisting of varying levels of intensity in phonological awareness instruction. Direct Instruction, Direct Instruction + a supplemental phonological awareness program, ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 9. The effects of a first grade phonological awareness intervention in reducing special education referrals
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- This longitudinal study sought to determine how the use of the Reading Mastery and Reading Mastery Fast Cycle programs would affect the reading achievement of 90 elementary school students and their referrals ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 10. Improving the generalization of sound/symbol knowledge: Teaching spelling to kindergarten children with disabilities
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- This study examined the effect of combining spelling instruction with code-based reading instruction on the application and transfer of segmentation and letter knowledge to reading by kindergarten students ...
- Created on 14 July 2016
- 11. Phonemic awareness training: Application of principles of Direct Instruction
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- This study reviewed research on phonemic awareness training and the application of Direct Instruction principles. The author discusses the relationship between phonemic awareness and reading, why some ...
- Created on 12 November 2015
- 12. Improving the generalization of sound/symbol knowledge: Teaching spelling to kindergarten children with disabilities
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- This study examined the effect of combining spelling instruction with code-based reading instruction on the application and transfer of segmentation and letter knowledge to reading by kindergarten students ...
- Created on 03 November 2015
- 13. Does Phoneme Awareness Training in Kindergarten Make a Difference in Early Word Recognition and Developmental Spelling?
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- This study examined the effects of phonemic segmentation instruction and letter names and letter sounds instruction on kindergarten students’ spelling and reading skills. Ninety kindergarten students from ...
- Created on 09 April 2015
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