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Michael W. Harvey – Online Submission, 2011
School systems across the country continuously seek to find ways to increase academic achievement at all grades. Possessing the ability to read is one of the keys to academic success; not being able to presents many challenges. Union County Public Schools and the state of North Carolina expect students leaving their kindergarten year to be able to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Action Research, Compulsory Education, Reading Failure
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Diliberto, Jennifer A.; Beattie, John R.; Flowers, Claudia P.; Algozzine, Robert F. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
Direct, explicit, and systematic instruction of critical skills has been a hallmark of effective teaching for many years. In this study, we implemented a quasi-experimental pre-/post-test design with nonequivalent groups to determine the effectiveness of syllable skills instruction on reading achievement. Classes were randomly assigned to control…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Teacher Effectiveness, Syllables