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Cameron Downing; Gwennant Evans-Jones; Simone Lira Calabrich; Caspar Wynne; Rachel Cartin; Joanna Dunton; Ruth Elliott; Markéta Caravolas; Charles Hulme; Manon Jones – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
There is good evidence that high-quality instruction targeting reading-related skills in the classroom leads to gains in reading. However, considerably less is known about the possible efficacy of "remote" instruction. This study evaluated the efficacy of an interactive evidence-based language-rich literacy programme. 184 children were…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Distance Education
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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Scott, Amy; Denston, Amanda; Wilson, Leanne; Carson, Karyn; Macfarlane, Angus Hikairo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study investigated the feasibility of a teacher implemented intervention to accelerate phonological awareness, letter, and vocabulary knowledge in 141 children (mean age 5 years, 4 months) who entered school with lower levels of oral language ability. The children attended schools in low socioeconomic communities where additional stress was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Phonological Awareness, Young Children
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Connor, Carol McDonald; Crowe, Elizabeth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Research to guide text structure interventions for the primary grades is very limited, yet as early as in kindergarten, many state standards increasingly emphasize exposure to challenging expository texts. The purpose of the present study was to provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and promise (or the effects) of three brief text…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Landry, Susan H.; Swank, Paul R.; Anthony, Jason L.; Assel, Michael A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation for scaling up a comprehensive early childhood teacher professional development program into 11 communities across 2 years with funding through state legislative actions. The comprehensive program had four major components based on results from a previous multi-condition random assignment…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Electronic Learning, Mentors
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Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Goetz, Ernest T.; Hall, Robert J.; Payne, Tara; Taylor, Aaron B.; Kim, Minjung; McCormick, Anita S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Early Reading First (ERF) was created to address problems related to language and development among economically disadvantaged and language-minority preschool children through quality classroom processes, professional development, and instruction. More than any previous initiative, ERF specifies what early literacy instruction should look like in…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Economically Disadvantaged, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
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Matuchniak, Tina; Olson, Carol Booth; Scarcella, Robin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study reports on the effects of the Pathway Project, a professional development intervention aimed at supporting the academic language development of English Learners (ELs). Using a subset of data collected during a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial involving nine middle and six high schools in an urban, low-income school…
Descriptors: Intervention, Hispanic Americans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning