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Imray, Peter; Sissons, Mike – Support for Learning, 2021
The Equals Formal Curriculum English Scheme of Work has been designed for that very small percentage of the school population, perhaps as low as one or two per cent, who have global learning difficulties (GLD) to such a degree that they are consistently working at levels significantly below their age-related peers for all of their academic lives.…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Foreign Countries, Severe Disabilities, Elementary School Students
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O'Rourke, Diarmuid; Olshtroon, Aoife; O'Halloran, Claire – Support for Learning, 2016
In this study we examined the effectiveness of a reading intervention targeting a group of 24 struggling readers in ten primary schools in Ireland. The intervention consisted of two components; component one consisted of 15-20 minutes delivery of the Toe-by-Toe programme (a well established systematic synthetic phonics programme) and the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading, Intervention, Elementary Schools
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Savage, Robert; Carless, Sue; Erten, Ozlem – Support for Learning, 2009
This study explored the responsiveness of children at risk of reading problems in Year 1 to a phonics intervention delivered by teaching assistants (TAs). Based on their non-word decoding skills in the immediate post-tests, 74 children were clustered together at the high end as "treatment responders" (n = 49) and at the low end as "treatment…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Early Intervention, Decoding (Reading), Teaching Assistants