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Cross, Carmelita – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Reading fluency has been acknowledged as a key component in the process of learning to read. As students enter kindergarten, many of them do not have the early or emergent literacy skills they need in order to become fluent readers. Kindergarten students in a Midwest suburban elementary school were studied focusing on their development of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Program Effectiveness
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Elaine Wang; John Pane; Nancy Nelson; Marissa Suhr; Hank Fien – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Reading achievement declined drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic (Bailey et al., 2021). One report suggests more than one-third of fourth-grade students cannot read at a basic level and access to effective literacy instruction is particularly limited for minority students and students with learning disabilities (Ellis et…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Students with Disabilities, COVID-19
Hobbs, L. Jon; Overby, Melanie – Grantee Submission, 2019
The UPSTART Summer program is a federally funded i3 validation project that uses a computer-based program to maintain and develop the literacy skills of elementary school students in rural Utah during the summer months when school is out of session. Researchers used a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impact of the program in forestalling…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Elementary School Students, Rural Schools, Educational Technology
Soto, Xigrid T.; Crucet-Choi, Andres; Goldstein, Howard – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: Preschoolers' phonological awareness (PA) and alphabet knowledge (AK) skills are two of the strongest predictors of future reading. Despite evidence that providing at-risk preschoolers with timely emergent literacy interventions can prevent academic difficulties, there is a scarcity of research focusing on Latinx preschoolers who are Dual…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic American Students, Phonological Awareness, Alphabets
Doolittle, Martha; Hutchins, Shaun – Online Submission, 2018
This report summarizes Fall 2017 Texas Kindergarten Early Assessment (TX-KEA) results for Austin Independent School District (AISD) kindergarten students, examining those with or without prior AISD prekindergarten experience. Test domains summarized in the report include vocabulary, listening comprehension, blending, letter names, letter sounds,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Kindergarten, School Readiness, Screening Tests
Laura Nicole Delrose – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Reading instruction has historically been deemphasized for students in special education, and the limited research on this topic reveals that sight word vocabulary is most commonly taught in special education classrooms (Browder, Wakeman, Spooner, Ahlgrim-Delzell, Algozzine, 2006). However, successful reading instruction must target the five…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Vocabulary Development, Reading Processes
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Hindman, Annemarie H.; Wasik, Barbara A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The current study examined whether Head Start children who experienced a high-quality preschool intervention, "Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy" ("ExCELL"), as three-year-olds began the subsequent pre-kindergarten (or four-year-old) year with stronger language and literacy skills than same-age peers who…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Coaching (Performance)
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Valbuena, Amanda Carolina – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
To develop reading acquisition in an effective way, it is necessary to take into account three goals during the process: automatic word recognition, or development of phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, and a desire for reading. This article focuses on promoting phonemic awareness in English as a second language through a program called…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonemic Awareness, English (Second Language), Phonics
Whittaker, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether kindergarten-reading achievement could be increased by implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) strategies. Kindergarten children (N = 290) who were identified as at-risk for reading difficulties were assigned to receive intervention through a) small reading groups (SRG), b)…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Kindergarten, Reading Achievement, Response to Intervention
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
This review-specific protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention reports in the Children and Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder topic area. The review-specific protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook" (version 3.0). This review focuses…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
"Reading Recovery[R]" is a short-term intervention that provides one-on-one tutoring to first-grade students who are struggling in reading and writing. The supplementary program aims to promote literacy skills and foster the development of reading and writing strategies by tailoring individualized lessons to each student. Tutoring is…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction
Jones, LaQuanta – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Reading research indicates a student's academic achievement is connected to his or her reading ability (Tindall & Nisbet, 2010). Children do not have sufficient reading skills because they lack the literacy skills necessary to be successful readers. These fundamental areas include phonics, reading comprehension, fluency, alphabetic awareness,…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Statistical Analysis
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MacDonald, Colleen; Figueredo, Lauren – Reading Teacher, 2010
A history of poverty and low academic achievement in four urban schools pointed to the need to implement an early intervention focused on oral language and emergent literacy. The Kindergarten Early Literacy Tutoring (KELT) Program was designed to target senior (5 year old) kindergarten students most at-risk. The intervention consisted of an extra…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Early Intervention, Oral Language, Program Effectiveness
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Rafdal, Brooke H.; McMaster, Kristen L.; McConnell, Scott R.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study determined the effectiveness of Kindergarten Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (K-PALS) for students with disabilities. The researchers randomly assigned 89 kindergartners with individualized education programs (IEPs) from 47 classrooms to control (n = 9); K-PALS Level 1 (teachers received 1-day workshop; n = 19); or K-PALS Level 2…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Oral Reading, Beginning Reading, Learning Strategies
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Hatcher, Peter J.; Hulme, Charles; Snowling, Margaret J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: We evaluate the effectiveness of three theoretically motivated programmes for the teaching of reading to four-year-old children. Method: Four hundred and ten children, of pre-kindergarten age, in 20 UK Reception-year classrooms were divided into four matched groups and randomly assigned to one of three experimental teaching conditions,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonetics, Phonemes, Reading Failure