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Direct linkDi Stasio, Maria Rosaria; Savage, Robert; Abrami, Philip C. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
This paper reports the follow-up of a randomised control trial study of the ABRACADABRA web-based literacy intervention that contrasted synthetic versus analytic phonics (Comaskey, Savage & Abrami, 2009) in kindergarten children from urban low-SES backgrounds. Participants who received a "synthetic" phonics+phoneme awareness training (n = 26) or…
Descriptors: Intervention, Kindergarten, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Grant, Amy; Wood, Eileen; Gottardo, Alexandra; Evans, Mary Ann; Phillips, Linda; Savage, Robert – NHSA Dialog, 2012
The current study developed a taxonomy of reading skills and compared this taxonomy with skills being trained in 30 commercially available software programs designed to teach emergent literacy or literacy-specific skills for children in preschool, kindergarten, and Grade 1. Outcomes suggest that, although some skills are being trained in a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Best Practices, Classification
Deault, Louise; Savage, Robert; Abrami, Philip – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
Inattention is often associated with reduced response to reading intervention. This study explored attention as a predictor of individual variation in response to a free-access Web-based literacy intervention, ABRACADABRA (http://abralite.concordia.ca) in typical Grade 1 children. A randomized control design was used to contrast two interventions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Reading Difficulties, Reading Ability
