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Direct linkHelf, Shawnna; Cooke, Nancy L.; Konrad, Moira – Preventing School Failure, 2014
This study compared the reading gains of Kindergarten students who were at risk for reading failure who were taught with either a structured supplemental reading program or with teacher-designed or teacher-selected instruction. The authors used a quasi-experimental design with preexisting groups to examine changes from pretest to posttest.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Supplementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
Wolgemuth, Jennifer; Savage, Robert; Helmer, Janet; Lea, Tess; Harper, Helen; Chalkiti, Kalotina; Bottrell, Christine; Abrami, Phil – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The effectiveness of a web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, to improve the literacy outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students was evaluated over one semester in several Northern Territory primary schools in 2009. ABRACADABRA is intended as a support for teachers in the early years of schooling, giving them a friendly, game and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Phonological Awareness, Attendance
Shaw, Donita Massengill – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of two handwriting approaches, D'Nealian and Sunform, on kindergartners' letter formations. Forty-one participants received D'Nealian handwriting instruction as the control group; 133 kindergartners were instructed in Sunform as the experimental approach. Pre-post tests at the beginning and end…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Handwriting, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols
