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Moore-Hart, Margaret; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
In 1996 President Clinton established the America Reads Challenge Act (1997), which included a commitment that every child will read independently and well by the end of third grade. This initiative was predicated on links between achievement and poverty (Riley, 1996, 2002) and that children reading below grade level in the early grades perform…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Volunteers, Tutoring
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Katz, Lauren A.; Stone, C. Addison; Carlisle, Joanne F.; Corey, Douglas Lyman; Zeng, Ji – Exceptional Children, 2008
This 2-year longitudinal study examined initial evidence of progress in reading for 1,512 children with and without identified speech-language and/or learning disabilities (LD-SLD) in the context of the explicit literacy instruction provided in Michigan's Reading First (RF)schools. The findings suggested that children with LD-SLD labels…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Literacy