... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
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, ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...