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Georgiou, George K.; Savage, Robert; Dunn, Kristy; Bowers, Peter; Parrila, Rauno – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Structured Word Inquiry (SWI; an orthography intervention with a focus on morphology and how morphology interrelates with phonology and etymology) and Simplicity intervention (a novel phonics intervention) on the reading and spelling skills of persistently poor Grade 3 readers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Intervention
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Grant, Amy; Wood, Eileen; Gottardo, Alexandra; Evans, Mary Ann; Phillips, Linda; Savage, Robert – NHSA Dialog, 2012
The current study developed a taxonomy of reading skills and compared this taxonomy with skills being trained in 30 commercially available software programs designed to teach emergent literacy or literacy-specific skills for children in preschool, kindergarten, and Grade 1. Outcomes suggest that, although some skills are being trained in a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Best Practices, Classification
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Savage, Robert; Carless, Sue; Erten, Ozlem – Support for Learning, 2009
This study explored the responsiveness of children at risk of reading problems in Year 1 to a phonics intervention delivered by teaching assistants (TAs). Based on their non-word decoding skills in the immediate post-tests, 74 children were clustered together at the high end as "treatment responders" (n = 49) and at the low end as "treatment…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Early Intervention, Decoding (Reading), Teaching Assistants