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Hayes, Ben; Heather, Andrew; Jones, Daniel; Clarke, Christopher – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2018
Precision Teaching (PT) is an evidence-based intervention, which research indicates is frequently not implemented following training, with few teachers using it in schools after training events. The web-based programme in this research focuses on word-level reading skills and targets blending and segmenting skills rather than whole word reading.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Precision Teaching, Web Based Instruction, Evidence Based Practice
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Tarar, Jessica M.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Dickens, Rachel H. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2015
The TOWRE-2 was developed to provide an efficient measure of two essential wordlevel reading skills, sight word reading and phonetic decoding skills. The Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) subtest assesses the number of real words that an individual can read from a vertical list within 45 s. This subtest is designed to measure the size of an individual's…
Descriptors: Word Study Skills, Sight Method, Phonetics, Decoding (Reading)
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Solari, Emily J.; Denton, Carolyn A.; Petscher, Yaacov; Haring, Christa – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2018
This study investigates the effects and feasibility of an intervention for first-grade students at risk for reading difficulties or disabilities (RD). The intervention was provided by general education classroom teachers and consisted of 15 min whole-class comprehension lessons (Tier 1) and 30 min Tier 2 intervention sessions in word reading,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Feasibility Studies, Program Implementation, Word Study Skills
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McNinch, George; Carmichael, Mary Ann – Reading Improvement, 1973
Suggests that informal word analysis inventories be used to determine a pupil's skill mastery level and, because of the flexibility of informal tests, that they are perhaps superior to standardized measures. (TO)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Skills