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1. The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction Curricula: A Meta-Analysis of a Half Century of Research
(Publication)
... 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 ...
Created on 22 November 2019
2. The Effects of the Language Arts Strand of the Reading Mastery Signature Series on the Reading and Language Skills of English Language Learners
(Publication)
... measures. Results indicate statistically significant gains in word recognition, oral reading accuracy, silent reading comprehension, spelling, and word meaning percentile ranks. (Copyright © 2011, National ...
Created on 19 July 2016
3. Corrective Reading: An evidence-based remedial reading intervention
(Publication)
... significant and educationally large gains in the phonologically-related processes of word attack, phonemic awareness, and spelling. Statistically significant and moderately large gains in phonological ...
Created on 09 October 2015
4. Interventions for reading difficulties: A comparison of response to intervention by ELL and EFL struggling readers
(Publication)
... Program, or the PHAST Decoding Program with a spelling and writing component added. The control group received traditional special education reading instruction, typically utilizing an eclectic curriculum ...
Created on 04 December 2013
5. The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction in Reading Compared to a State Mandated Language Arts Curriculum for Ninth and Tenth Graders with Specific Learning Disabilities
(Publication)
... Evaluation of reading ability focused on decoding, spelling, and comprehension. One hundred and four ninth and tenth grade students with learning disabilities participated in the program over a 15 week ...
Created on 09 June 2016
6. The effects of Reading Mastery for students with learning disabilities
(Publication)
This study examined the effectiveness of Reading Mastery on the reading achievement of two third grade students with learning disabilities, specifically examining changes in the rates of progress in decoding, ...
Created on 09 October 2015
7. The Baltimore curriculum project: Final report of the four-year evaluation study
(Publication)
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 ...
Created on 30 October 2015
8. Reading Mastery versus word study instruction as it pertains to third graders' reading achievement scores
(Publication)
... no significant difference between the reading achievement of the students in each group. However, students in the Word Study group recorded significantly higher scores in the Spelling and Word Analysis ...
Created on 27 September 2015
9. The impact of Direct Instruction on elementary students’ reading achievement in an urban school district
(Publication)
... spelling, and mathematics were implemented in six high poverty public elementary schools in Baltimore in the fall of 1996. Each of the six schools was demographically matched with a similar school within ...
Created on 26 September 2015
10. Effects of Direct Instruction and basal reading instruction programs on the reading achievement of second graders
(Publication)
... 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 ...
Created on 25 September 2015
11. Building on the best, learning from what works: Seven promising reading and language arts programs
(Publication)
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 ...
Created on 30 September 2015
12. Phonological Awareness and Phonetic-Graphic Conversion: A Study of the Effects of Two Intervention Paradigms with Learning Disabled Children. Learning Disability or Learning Difference?
(Publication)
This study compared the effect of Reading Mastery and Reading Mastery combined with the Stabilized Learning System Program on students with severe learning disabilities acquisition of reading skills. Eighty ...
Created on 16 June 2015
13. Thirty years of NICHD research: What we now know about how children learn to read
(Publication)
This study summarizes 30 years of research conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) on how children learn to read. The history of NICHD research and their rigorous ...
Created on 03 November 2015
14. Improving the generalization of sound/symbol knowledge: Teaching spelling to kindergarten children with disabilities ...
(Publication)
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
15. Improving the generalization of sound/symbol knowledge: Teaching spelling to kindergarten children with disabilities ...
(Publication)
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
16. Two Approaches to Reading Instruction with Children with Disabilities: Does Program Design Make a Difference?
(Publication)
... CAT sound recognition subtest and the PIAT reading recognition and spelling subtests indicated that the Reading Mastery (RM) students exhibited greater reading gains. Advanced progress RM students significantly ...
Created on 27 September 2015
17. Does Phoneme Awareness Training in Kindergarten Make a Difference in Early Word Recognition and Developmental Spelling? ...
(Publication)
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
18. Direct Instruction reading with average first-graders
(Publication)
... indicated that DI students recorded significantly higher scores on the Word Analysis and Spelling subtests than students in the control group. Both groups had similar results for vocabulary and reading ...
Created on 27 September 2015
19. Effectiveness of Visual Imagery Versus Rule-based Strategies in Teaching Spelling to Learning Disabled Students ...
(Publication)
This article examines the effectiveness of two programs for teaching spelling to learning disabled children. The programs chosen were Spelling Mastery Program and a visual imagery program based on the ...
Created on 17 April 2015
20. Direct Instruction in kindergarten part 2: Research findings
(Publication)
... Metropolitan Achievement Test indicate that DI students in kindergarten to third grade were close to or at the national norms on all measures (reading, math, language, spelling). Additionally, students ...
Created on 15 June 2016
21. Progress in a high school LD class
(Publication)
... skills. Six students (4 boys and 2 girls) participated in the study for the entire school year. Students received instruction with reading, language, math, spelling, and writing programs. Students were ...
Created on 30 September 2015
22. The Continued Impact of the Direct Instruction Model: Longitudinal Studies of Follow Through Students
(Publication)
... Wide Range Achievement Test for reading, math problem solving, and spelling. Results from the second study indicated that ninth grade students who previously received instruction with DI consistently outperformed ...
Created on 26 September 2015
23. Evaluation of the Williamsburg County Direct Instruction Program: Factors Leading to Success in Rural Elementary Programs
(Publication)
... used curriculum. Students were tested in all basic skill areas: reading, math, language and spelling. Students’ self-esteem was also measured. Results indicated that students in the Direct Instruction ...
Created on 25 September 2015
24. Using DI in a Victoria, B. C. Resource Room
(Publication)
This study examined the effects of Direct Instruction on the academic performance of children in a Learning Assisted classroom from 1980 to 1986. Students were divided into small groups (6-11) based on ...
Created on 09 April 2015
25. Is DI only for low achievers?
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) and Spelling Mastery (SM) on the reading and spelling skills of average and above-average fourth and fifth-grade students. Student achievement was ...
Created on 20 July 2016
26. First year report on a jr. high LD class
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction programs on the growth of reading, language, math, spelling, and writing skills of remedial students over one school year. Six students participated ...
Created on 12 June 2016
27. Follow Through revisited: Reflections on the site variability issue
(Publication)
In response to the controversial and conflicting analyses of the results from Project Follow Through, Gersten examines the issue of site variability. To counter one of the major assertions that one instructional ...
Created on 23 May 2017
28. Direct Instruction in spelling increases gain in spelling and reading skills ...
(Publication)
This study compared the effects of Spelling Mastery (SM) and Spelling in Language Arts (SLA) on the acquisition of spelling skills by second grade students. The Wide Range of Achievement Test, the Test ...
Created on 15 October 2015
29. The Monterey DI program for students with limited English (ESL)
(Publication)
... are instructed in small groups of 6-10 students according to skill level. Students were tested every week with criterion referenced tests in reading, language, math, and spelling. Student achievement was ...
Created on 13 November 2015
30. Comparative DISTAR results from five South Afrikaans school
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of DISTAR on the reading, spelling, and writing achievement of elementary Indian students in South Africa. Student achievement was assessed over three years beginning in ...
Created on 27 July 2016
31. A follow-up of Follow Through: The later effects of the Direct Instruction model on children in fifth and sixth grades
(Publication)
... to three. These students continued to outperform the local comparison groups in the fifth and sixth grades. Results of the WRAT reading section, MAT spelling section, and MAT math section indicated significant ...
Created on 25 September 2015
32. Accelerating spelling skills using morphographs ...
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of Morphographic Spelling on the spelling skills of 132 remedial and general education elementary students over eight months. There were three groups of general education ...
Created on 14 April 2017
33. Direct teaching for learning disabilities
(Publication)
... group scored significantly higher than students in the control group on measures of decoding, reading comprehension, and spelling; however, there were no significant differences between groups on mathematics ...
Created on 19 August 2009
34. The effect of the DISTAR instructional system: An evaluation of the 1973-1974 Title I program of Winthrop, Massachusetts
(Publication)
... program was as effective in developing oral language skills as the traditional basal program for first grade students. Second grade DISTAR students demonstrated strong gains in spelling, word study skills, ...
Created on 13 October 2015
35. Analysis of an early childhood learning program in Granite School District, Salt Lake City, Utah
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of the DISTAR program on the academic achievement of first grade students. Additionally, this study sought to examine the effect of starting the program at age three, four, ...
Created on 29 May 2017
36. An evaluative study: Teaching three and four-year olds in a structured education program
(Publication)
... students in the DI group who received two years of instruction, scored significantly higher in spelling and reading than the five-year old students in the control group. Four-year old students in the DI ...
Created on 12 June 2016
37. The effectiveness of Direct Instruction on IQ performance and achievement in reading and arithmetic
(Publication)
... DISTAR group for two years recorded a mean reading achievement at grade level 2.60, a mean reading performance of 2.51, and a mean spelling performance of 1.87. Following one year of instruction with the ...
Created on 27 September 2015
38. Nebraska District Outscores Peers Statewide
(Publication)
... and Spelling Mastery were administered in grades K-3 in 2004. Results from the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) test indicated that by 2007 all three Gering elementary schools ...
Created on 28 September 2015

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