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Miller, Heidi Thomson – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This is a quantitative research project utilizing secondary data. Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention are two early literacy interventions based on a whole language and phonetic approach to reading instruction. For the purposes of this study, the end-of-first-grade benchmark is a Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) 18 and the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Literacy Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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

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
Thomson, Brenda; Miller, Lynn D. – Florida Educational Research Council Research Bulletin, 1991
A study examined the effects on 80 first graders' reading achievement when direct instructional phonics is incorporated as a supplement to a whole language approach. Two first-grade classrooms used the Houghton-Mifflin Integrated Literature Program, and two other classrooms supplemented the program with direct phonics instruction. Subjects…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation, Phonics

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

Underwood, Jean – Journal of Research in Reading, 2000
Presents evidence of learning outcomes in reading from the use of software incorporating two very different styles of learning, structured sub-skills tutoring (using an Integrated Learning System) versus free reading (using a talking book), but which both heavily exploit multimedia presentation. Shows that current debates about whole-word versus…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Integrated Learning Systems

Biemiller, Andrew; Siegel, Linda S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
This study compared the "Bridge" experimental reading program and whole language instruction with 106 economically disadvantaged first graders at risk for reading difficulties. The "Bridge" program uses icons or picture symbols to facilitate print word identification. The "Bridge" group performed significantly better…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 1

Traweek, Dean; Berninger, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
This study compared two beginning reading programs, Integrated Reading-Writing (IR-W) and DISTAR in comparable urban schools with students "at risk" for literacy problems. Although the two programs resulted in comparable gains in word recognition and overall reading achievement by the end of first grade, children in IR-W tended to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Educationally Disadvantaged