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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Peer Tutoring and Response Groups" aims to improve the language and achievement of English language learners by pairing or grouping students to work on a task. The students may be grouped by age or ability (English-only, bilingual, or limited English proficient) or the groups may be mixed. Both peer tutoring pairs and peer response…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Second Language Learning
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Read Naturally" is designed to improve reading fluency using a combination of books, audio-tapes, and computer software. This program includes three main strategies: repeated reading of English text for oral reading fluency development, teacher modeling of story reading, and systematic monitoring of student progress by teachers.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Story Reading, Reading Fluency, Second Language Learning
What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Fast ForWord Language" is a computer-based instructional program developed to build cognitive skills students need to improve English language proficiency and reading skill. It consists of seven game-like exercises, including nonverbal and verbal sound discrimination, phonological processing, vocabulary recognition, and language…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, English (Second Language)
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
The "Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition" ("BCIRC") program, an adaptation of the "Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition" ("CIRC") program, was designed to help Spanish-speaking students succeed in reading Spanish and then making a successful transition to English reading. In…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 3, Writing (Composition), Intervention
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
English language learners are students with a primary language other than English who have a limited range of speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills in English. English language learners also include students identified and determined by their school as having limited English proficiency and a language other than English spoken in the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Reading Difficulties
What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"DaisyQuest" is a software bundle that offers computer-assisted instruction in phonological awareness, targeting children aged three to seven years. The instructional activities, framed in a fairy tale involving a search for a friendly dragon named Daisy, teach children how to recognize words that rhyme; words that have the same…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Read Naturally" is designed to improve reading fluency using a combination of books, audio-tapes, and computer software. This program includes three main strategies: (1) repeated reading of English text for oral reading fluency development; (2) teacher modeling of story reading; and (3) systematic monitoring of student progress by…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software, Story Reading
What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Reading Mastery" is a direct instruction program designed to provide explicit, systematic instruction in English language reading. Reading Mastery is available in two versions, "Reading Mastery Classic" levels I and II (for use in grades K-3) and "Reading Mastery Plus," an integrated reading-language program for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking
What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Enhanced Proactive Reading" a comprehensive, integrated reading, language arts, and English language development curriculum, is targeted to first-grade English language learners experiencing problems with learning to read through conventional instruction. The curriculum is implemented as small group daily reading instruction, during…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 1, Reading Instruction, Learning Problems
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) topic report addresses reading interventions for students in grades K-3, including core reading curricula, programs, or products to be used as supplements to other reading instruction, programs that focus on staff development, and literacy software. The WWC review on beginning reading focuses on programs…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Beginning Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement
