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Improving Reading Instruction and Students' Reading Skills in the Early Grades: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Haiti
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Guzmán, Juan Carlos; Schuenke-Lucien, Kate; D'Agostino, Anthony J.; Berends, Mark; Elliot, Andrew J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In Haiti, 49% of students cannot read a single word in Creole by the time they start grade 3, which is reflective of a broader learning crisis in low-income and fragile contexts. Read to Learn, an early-grade literacy intervention, was implemented and evaluated from fall 2014 through spring 2016 with the aim of improving students' reading skills.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Reading Improvement, Emergent Literacy
Learning to Read in Fragile Contexts: Experimental Evidence Using Structured Pedagogy in Haiti
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Melissa Adelman; Juan Baron; Jose Mola; Astrid Pineda – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Despite increasing school enrollment, significant literacy gaps persist in developing countries, with many children unable to read by age 10. This paper evaluates "M'ap Li Net Ale," a comprehensive intervention aimed at improving early-grade reading skills in Haiti, a context characterized by limited government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 1