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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
The Role of Vocabulary and Decoding Language Skills in Reading Comprehension: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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Wawire, Brenda Aromu; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
The present study explored the role of vocabulary and decoding skills in predicting reading comprehension, utilizing data from 322 first- grade children from four elementary schools in Kenya. The children were administered a comprehensive battery of tests to assess pseudo-word reading skills, oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading), Language Skills, Reading Comprehension