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Jennifer Spivey – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This program evaluation took place in Harnett County Schools, North Carolina. This study evaluated two common reading intervention programs currently used in the Harnett district. This evaluation compared and examined the effectiveness of Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention on a subset of students at Highland Elementary School, a…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students
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Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell; Diane Browder; Leah Wood – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Percentages of correct responses to decoding probes (i.e., phoneme identification, blending phonemes to identify words, blending phonemes to identify pictures) were measured across three participants with moderate intellectual disability or autism in elementary school. Time delay and system of least prompts were used in conjunction with an AAC…
Descriptors: Moderate Mental Retardation, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Phonics, Skill Development
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Huang, Francis L.; Ford, Karen L.; Invernizzi, Marcia; Fan, Xitao – Grantee Submission, 2013
We investigated the latent factor structure of the "Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Kindergarteners" in Spanish ("PALS español K"). Participants included 590 Spanish-speaking, public-school kindergarteners from five states. Three theoretically-guided factor structures were measured and tested with one half of our…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Screening Tests, Spanish Speaking
Paeplow, Colleen – Wake County Public School System, 2015
In 2013-14, Letterland had strong implementation, with moderate to high fidelity within approximately 90% of Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) K-1 classrooms. The impact of Letterland on students' reading achievement was neutral to positive. A significantly higher percentage of WCPSS kindergarten students were at or above benchmark mid-year…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
Denton, David R. – 1998
This paper contends that the most difficult task facing state policymakers is to understand that the strong feelings on both sides of the reading debate may not be truly reflective of the choices before them--it is not a choice between teaching reading through phonics or whole language. The paper states that a good whole language program must…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Practices, Phonics, Primary Education
Flippo, Rona F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Distressed by media headlines trumpeting supposed "reading-and-writing wars," a reading education professor discusses his Delphi survey of 11 reading experts. Experts agreed that emphasizing only phonics instruction and drill-and-practice would make learning to read difficult. Reading would be facilitated by bringing together…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Elementary Education, Literacy Education, Mass Media
BORDEAUX, ELIZABETH A.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE THE FOLLOWING APPROACHES TO TEACHING FIRST GRADE READING (1) A TRADITIONAL BASAL READER, (2) BASAL READER PLUS INTENSIVE PHONICS INSTRUCTION, AND (3) THE LATTER TWO METHODS PLUS SENSORY EXPERIENCES. THESE THREE APPROACHES WERE TRIED FOR 140 SCHOOL DAYS (1 YEAR), USING 28 FIRST-GRADE CLASSES. THEY WERE…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Phonics
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Fox, Barbara; Wright, Marypat – Rural Educator, 2000
In response to a legislative mandate to teach phonics, a rural North Carolina school district devised a plan where at-risk children received small-group instruction in phonics, reading, writing, and spelling in addition to regular reading instruction. A local university trained teacher assistants to implement the plan. Reading, writing, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College School Cooperation, Early Intervention, High Risk Students
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
The English Language Arts Standard Course of Study establishes competency goals and objectives for the teaching and learning of English Language Arts in North Carolina. This document details the English Language Arts content that should be taught in all schools. The entire K-12 North Carolina English Language Arts Standard Course of Study was last…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Competence, Reading Programs