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Marianne Rice; Florina Erbeli; Kausalai Wijekumar – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
Phonemic awareness is a key building block for later reading and spelling development. Students at risk for reading difficulties may have difficulties with phonemic awareness and need additional instruction or intervention to develop these skills. This column discusses evidence-based phonemic awareness instruction and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Evidence Based Practice, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
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Lassault, Julie; Sprenger-Charolles, Liliane; Albrand, Jean-Patrice; Alavoine, Edouard; Richardson, Ulla; Lyytinen, Heikki; Ziegler, Johannes C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Purpose: This study was designed to assess the efficiency of a French version of "GraphoGame" (GG) against an equally engaging math intervention ("Fiete Math," FM) in a large school sample of children from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods in grade 1 (N = 921). Method: The intervention was implemented in two…
Descriptors: French, Educational Games, Low Income Students, Grade 1
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Tijms, Jurgen; Pavlidou, Elpida V.; Hoette, Hester A. I. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
In this pilot study, we evaluated the effects of the online computer-based training programme 'Lexilogy-Greek' on the reading and spelling performance of young poor readers and spellers. The training is based on psycholinguistic principles that emphasise the importance of acquiring efficient phonological as well as morphological knowledge in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Online Courses, Reading Achievement
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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Kyle, Fiona; Kujala, Janne; Richardson, Ulla; Lyytinen, Heikki; Goswami, Usha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
We report an empirical comparison of the effectiveness of two theoretically motivated computer-assisted reading interventions (CARI) based on the Finnish GraphoGame CARI: English GraphoGame Rime (GG Rime) and English GraphoGame Phoneme (GG Phoneme). Participants were 6-7-year-old students who had been identified by their teachers as being…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Phonemes
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Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K.; Rashotte, Carol A.; Herron, Jeannine; Lindamood, Patricia – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
The relative effectiveness of two computer-assisted instructional programs designed to provide instruction and practice in foundational reading skills was examined. First-grade students at risk for reading disabilities received approximately 80 h of small-group instruction in four 50-min sessions per week from October through May. Approximately…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
"Voyager Passport"[TM] is a supplemental reading intervention system for students in grades K-5. "Voyager Passport Reading Journeys"[TM] is a reading intervention program designed for adolescents who struggle with reading. The "Voyager Universal Literacy System"[R] is a K-3 reading program that includes a core reading…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Intervention, Home Study, Reading Programs
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Given, Barbara K.; Wasserman, John D.; Chari, Sharmila A.; Beattie, Karen; Eden, Guinevere F. – Brain and Language, 2008
The current study was conducted to test the premise that computer-based intervention that targets auditory temporal processing combined with language exercises (Fast ForWord[R]) is effective in remediating children with disorders of language and reading. Sixty-five middle school struggling readers were randomly assigned to one of five groups and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Language Impairments
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Pindiprolu, Sekhar S.; Forbush, David E. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2009
The ability to read is essential to school-based learning and skilled responding in an information rich society. Unfortunately, many students in today's schools do not become skilled readers. Many reading researchers (Blachman 1996, 1997; Felton, 1993; Fletcher & Lyon, 1998; Torgesen, 1997) agree that the vast majority of problems experienced…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties
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Watson, Tara; Hempenstall, Kerry – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This study was an evaluation of a parent delivered, computer based beginning reading program with a group of 15 Kindergarten and Grade 1 students. Completing the "Funnix" program at home through a CD copy was expected to produce educationally and statistically significant improvements in phonemic awareness, letter-sound fluency, non-word…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Phonemics, Beginning Reading
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
Waterford Early Reading Program[TM] is a software-based curriculum for students in Kindergarten through second grade. The curriculum is designed to promote reading, writing, and typing, incorporating literacy skills such as letter mastery, language stories, spelling, basic writing skills, reading and listening development, and comprehension…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Emergent Literacy, Writing Skills, Reading Comprehension