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Stockard, Jean; Engelmann, Kurt – Journal of Behavior Assessment and Intervention in Children, 2010
Data from two different sites were used to examine how exposure to a highly academic curriculum is related to growth in beginning literacy and early reading skills from kindergarten through the end of third grade. In one site students in one school used the Direct Instruction (DI) program, "Reading Mastery (RM)", from kindergarten…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Direct Instruction, Primary Education
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Chapman, James W.; Tunmer, William E.; Prochnow, Jane E. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2001
Examines the relation between the development of phonological processing skills and the effectiveness of Reading Recovery (RR) in a whole language instructional context. Finds that: RR and poor reader comparison groups had deficiencies in phonological-processing skills before participation; participation in the program did not reduce these…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies, Phonology, Primary Education
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McGuinness, Diane; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1995
Trains 94 first graders using a structured phonological reading method emphasizing English phonology and phoneme/grapheme correspondence. Compares to a control group who received a whole-language-plus-phonics approach. Notes that children in all groups improved their phonological awareness by the same amount. Concludes that phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence