This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading fluency and behavior of seven middle school students with reading deficits and behavior problems. The Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised ...
This study examined the effect of the letter-sound correspondence instruction of the Corrective Reading program on three male middle school students with moderate intellectual disabilities. Additionally, ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement and classroom behavior of seven middle school students with reading deficits and behavior problems. The Woodcock Reading ...
This study examined juvenile delinquency outcomes for children with disabilities who were in two preschool models: Direct Instruction and a cognitively-oriented, child-directed model. Participants included ...
This study compared the effect of two contrasting instructional programs on the reading achievement of at-risk students. One hundred sixty-two at-risk fourth grade students were selected from two similar ...
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 examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the academic achievement of remedial third and fourth grade students and teachers’ instructional expectations and decision-making. The North ...
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 ...
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 ...
... assigned to either the Mediated Learning (ML) or DISTAR (DI) program participated in this follow-up study. All students were administered the McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities (MS), Peabody Picture ...
... Mediated Learning or DISTAR program. The McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities (MSCA), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R), Test of Early Language Development (TELD), and the Test of Early ...
... the McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities test, the Test of Early Reading (TERA), the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT), and the California Achievement Test (CAT) to measure reading achievement. ...
This study investigated the relationship between a Direct Instruction reading program and language abilities of students with learning disabilities across two years of reading instruction. Results indicate ...
This report discusses two studies conducted at Camden, New Jersey elementary schools. The first study investigated the effectiveness of the DISTAR Language program with kindergarten students at three elementary ...
This study compared the effect of the DISTAR Language I and the Teach Them to Speak language programs on the language abilities of at-risk preschool students. Students aged 3.5 to 5 years were randomly ...
This study examined the effectiveness of three language programs on the academic achievement of 98 disadvantaged kindergarten students. Each teacher chose between DISTAR, the Peabody Language Development ...
This study examined the effect of the DISTAR program on the basic skills of 24 elementary students in three schools. Students received instruction with either DISTAR Reading, Language, or Arithmetic. Additionally, ...
This study examined the effect of two experimental preschool programs (DISTAR, Nursery School model) on the academic achievement of low-SES preschool students. Seven teachers who were most opposed to a ...