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The Impact of an Early Reading Intervention with English Language Learners and Native-English-Speaking Children
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Dussling, Tess M. – Reading Psychology, 2020
This study investigated the effectiveness of a supplemental reading program that emphasizes phoneme awareness and phonics with small groups composed of both at-risk native English-speakers and at-risk English language learners (ELLs) whose first language is not Spanish. A multiple-baseline-across-participants design was utilized to investigate the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Emergent Literacy, Program Effectiveness
A Comparison of the Language Skills of ELLs and Monolinguals Who Are Poor Decoders, Poor Comprehenders, or Normal Readers
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Geva, Esther; Massey-Garrison, Angela – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
The overall objective of this article is to examine how oral language abilities relate to reading profiles in English language learners (ELLs) and English as a first language (EL1) learners, and the extent of similarities and differences between ELLs and EL1s in three reading subgroups: normal readers, poor decoders, and poor comprehenders. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Skills, English Language Learners, Decoding (Reading)
Two-Year Follow-Up of a Kindergarten Phonics Intervention for English Learners and Native English Speakers: Contextualizing Treatment Impacts by Classroom Literacy Instruction
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
The current study follows a sample of lower skilled language minority (LM) and native English-speaking (non-LM) students who participated in an efficacy trial of a kindergarten phonics-based intervention. Follow-up procedures allowed 93% of the original sample to be retained for simple treatment effects modeling (N = 78 LM and N = 59 non-LM) and…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Kindergarten, Reading Instruction, Intervention