This study examined the effect of the combination of Reading Mastery (RM) and Precision Teaching (PT) on the reading skills of elementary students (Grade 1to 4). Students who were below grade level in ...
Thirty-seven four year old Head Start students in a suburban area of the southern United States were randomly assigned to receive 30 minutes of daily instruction in Funnix or the same amount of time in ...
This study compared the effect of Reading Mastery and four “non-scripted” instructional models (Breakthrough to Literacy, Early Success, Four Blocks, and Together We Can) on the reading achievement of ...
This study compared the effectiveness of six reading programs on the phonics and reading achievement of 117 “struggling” first to third grade students. Students were selected from 42 classrooms in 14 schools. ...
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 effects of implementing a precorrection procedure prior to the delivery of Reading Mastery lessons. Six first grade students with disabilities received three precorrection strategies: ...
This one year study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of first and second grade students. One hundred and eight students (49 first grade, 59 second grade) identified ...
This study examined the effect of the Reading Mastery (RM) segmenting blending strategy on the decoding skills of nine preschool students. All nine students were taught the first 32 lessons of RM together, ...
... as the connection between letter names and letter sounds (phoneme awareness group). Activities for the phoneme awareness group included the DISTAR spell-by-sounds program. The second group was only instructed ...
This article reports on two studies that examined the effect of pausing or not pausing when decoding words. The first study examined the effect of pausing for one or three seconds between the sounds of ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the decoding skills of nine preschoolers, specifically the effect of pausing while decoding words. A pausing group (N=4) and a non-pausing group ...
This study examined the effect of the DISTAR Reading program on the academic achievement of low-SES preschoolers. Students at the preschool received instruction with DISTAR Reading, Language and Arithmetic ...
This experiment compared two beginning reading approaches: sounds (phonic) and word (look say). The study extended previous research conducted by Jeffrey and Samuels (1967) by measuring transfer effects ...
In response to the limited research related to reading with student with “mental retardation,” this study examined the effects of a direct phonic approach in teaching reading to six “moderately retarded” ...
This study examined the effect of the DISTAR Language and Reading programs on the Stanford Early School Achievement Test (SESAT) scores of kindergarten students. Students from four Title I schools were ...