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Sarah Novicoff; Thomas S. Dee – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
While policymakers have demonstrated considerable enthusiasm for "science of reading" initiatives, the evidence on the impact of related reforms when implemented at scale is limited. In this pre-registered, quasi-experimental study, we examine California's recent initiative to improve early literacy across the state's lowest-performing…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Block Grants, Reading Research, Reading Achievement
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McDonald, Trevor; Thornley, Christina; Staley, Rosemary; Moore, David W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
This Research Connections column describes the background to and the research base for the San Diego Unified School Districts' federally funded Striving Readers Project. The curriculum for the project was developed out of a longitudinal study into the literacy experiences of secondary students in New Zealand and from exploratory work in San Diego…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Theory Practice Relationship, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy, Ed. – Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2001
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 5, Number 1 are: "Affinities and Contradictions: The Dynamics…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy
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Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2003
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, provides an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 7, Numbers 1 and 2 (comprising volume 7) are: "The Why? What? When? And How? of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness
Moustafa, Margaret; Land, Robert – 2001
This study compares average SAT 9 reading scores of second through fifth grade English-only children in schools using "Open Court" (a program for teaching young children to read) with the scores of comparable schools using non-scripted programs in one very large urban school district in California. Findings show that schools using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Low Income, Program Effectiveness
RUDDELL, ROBERT B. – 1965
THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT UPON WORD RECOGNITION AND READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF FOUR READING PROGRAMS. THESE PROGRAMS VARIED IN (1) THE DEGREE OF REGULARITY OF GRAPHEME-PHONEME CORRESPONDENCES PROGRAMED INTO THE VOCABULARY PRESENTED AND (2) THE EMPHASIS ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AS RELATED TO MEANING. FOUR…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Graphemes, Language Patterns, Linguistics
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Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2002
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 6, Number 1 are: "Documenting and Developing Literacy in Deaf…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Deafness, Early Intervention
Sunderman, Gail L.; Amoa, Marian; Meyers, Tiffany – 1999
To understand the capacity of middle and high schools to support reading, a study examined two questions: (1) How do middle/high schools organize and allocate resources to support reading? and (2) How do middle/high schools respond to resource and structural challenges created by the multiple institutional actors that comprise the school system?…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
Roberts, Theresa; Corbett, Caro – 1997
A study examined the degree to which children with limited English proficiency can benefit from English instruction in phonemic awareness and phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Subjects were 27 kindergarten children in a suburban northern California school--16 spoke Hmong as their primary language and the rest were monolingual English speakers. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Hmong, Instructional Effectiveness