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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
"Fundations"[R] is a prevention and early-intervention program designed to help reduce reading and spelling failure. The program is aimed at students in grades K-3 and involves daily 30-minute lessons which focus on carefully-sequenced skills that include print knowledge, alphabet awareness, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Evidence, Standards, Prevention
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Dunn, Michael W. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
A debate exists in the research community about replacing the traditional IQ/achievement discrepancy method for learning disability identification with a "response-to-intervention model". This new assessment paradigm uses a student's level of improvement with small-group or individual programming to determine a possible need for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Reading Failure, Disability Identification
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Schwartz, Robert M.; Hobsbaum, Angela; Briggs, Connie; Scull, Janet – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2009
Reynolds and Wheldall reviewed research relating to Reading Recovery (RR) and concluded that "RR has provided an excellent model in demonstrating how to plan, promote, and implement an intervention across an educational system and how to design a professional development programme" (2007, p. 218). They balanced this praise with concerns about the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Failure, Models, Professional Development
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Smith, Susan Lambrecht; Scott, Kathleen A.; Roberts, Jenny; Locke, John L. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
The importance of early identification of children at risk for reading failure is clearly established in the literature. The purpose of this longitudinal retrospective study was to further define the relationship between the development of prereading skills and later reading outcome in two groups of children; a group of reading-disabled children…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten
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McIntyre, Laureen; Protz, Susan; McQuarrie, Lynn – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine if phonemic awareness skills improved for first grade students classified as at-risk whose teachers used the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program (LiPS; Lindamood & Lindamood, 1998). Students' scores on a Kindergarten screening tool (Learning Disabilities Working Committee-LDWC, 2005) were compared to…
Descriptors: Phonemics, Learning Disabilities, Reading Failure, Phonemic Awareness
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Gersten, Russell; Dimino, Joseph A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
In this article, the authors discuss aspects of Response to Intervention (RTI) that appear to be promising for the field of reading, and those that they view as problematic. Unlike many earlier models of innovation in special education service delivery, there is some research indicating promise. Most of that research has been conducted with…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Early Intervention, Special Education, Learning Disabilities