ERIC Number: EJ737985
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 18
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Investigating the Instructional Supportiveness of Leveled Texts
Cunningham, James W.; Spadorcia, Stephanie A.; Erickson, Karen A.; Koppenhaver, David A.; Sturm, Janet M.; Yoder, David E.
Reading Research Quarterly, v40 n4 p410-427 Oct-Dec 2005
Leveled books originally selected by or produced for use in Reading Recovery or its regular classroom initiative are now also widely used in regular and special classrooms having no affiliation with Reading Recovery. The frequent use of these leveled books in settings other than Reading Recovery raises an important question: Do books leveled for use in Reading Recovery support other reading instructional emphases in addition to the ones that Reading Recovery teachers are trained to provide? The purpose of this study was to examine the curricular dimensions of books leveled for use in Reading Recovery in order to judge how supportive such texts are for early reading instruction emphasizing word recognition or decoding instead of, or in addition to, the three main cueing systems. The study found that Reading Recovery books, as a category of early reading instructional texts, provide only a moderate amount of support for word-recognition instruction and almost none for decoding instruction in the use of onsets and rimes. The study also found that books leveled for use in Reading Recovery do not consistently increase in word-level demands as their levels increase. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Word Recognition, Reading Failure, Remedial Reading, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading), Difficulty Level
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Primary Education
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Language: English
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