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Download full textFoorman, Barbara R.; Herrera, Sarah; Dombek, Jennifer L.; Wood, Carla; Gaughn, Linda; Dougherty-Underwood, Lynn – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
District leaders in a large urban school district in central Florida wanted to examine the efficacy of a new curriculum designed to enhance the word knowledge of grade 5 students so as to improve reading achievement. The new curriculum, called Word Knowledge Instruction (WKI), consists of 15-minute lessons 4 days a week for 20 weeks. The lessons…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Urban Schools, Outcomes of Education
Direct linkGray, Susan H.; Ehri, Linnea C.; Locke, John L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
A randomized control trial compared the effects of two kinds of vocabulary instruction on component reading skills of adult struggling readers. Participants seeking alternative high school diplomas received 8 h of scripted tutoring to learn forty academic vocabulary words embedded within a civics curriculum. They were matched for language…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary, Reading Skills, High School Equivalency Programs
