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Dunn, Kristy; Georgiou, George K.; Inoue, Tomohiro; Savage, Robert; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
We examined whether different parent- and teacher-related factors had an effect on at-risk children's reading development during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seventy Grade 1 English-speaking Canadian children (28 females, 42 males; M[subscript age] = 6.60, SD = 0.46) who were at-risk for reading difficulties were administered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, At Risk Students
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Georgiou, George K.; Savage, Robert; Dunn, Kristy; Bowers, Peter; Parrila, Rauno – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Structured Word Inquiry (SWI; an orthography intervention with a focus on morphology and how morphology interrelates with phonology and etymology) and Simplicity intervention (a novel phonics intervention) on the reading and spelling skills of persistently poor Grade 3 readers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Intervention
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Savage, Robert; Georgiou, George; Parrila, Rauno; Maiorino, Kristina; Dunn, Kristy; Burgos, Giovani – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
We evaluated the impact of teaching complex grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPC) derived from the Simplicity Principle to at-risk poor readers in Grade 2 classrooms, using a two-arm dual site matched control trial intervention. Poor word readers (n = 149) were allocated to either a) Simplicity GPC (n= 79) or b) Letter-Name Control (n= 70) small…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students, Teaching Methods