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Jennifer P. Cheatham; Jill H. Allor; J. Kyle Roberts – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
This study examined the impact of independent practice of multiple-criteria text that targeted high-frequency words, decodability, and meaningfulness. Second-grade students, including at-risk students, were randomly assigned within classroom to a treatment group that read multiple-criteria text ("n" = 34), or contrast group that read…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Drills (Practice)
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Macaruso, Paul; Rodman, Alyson – Bilingual Research Journal, 2011
Young children who are English language learners (ELLs) face major challenges in learning to read English. This study examined whether computer-assisted instruction (CAI) can be beneficial to ELL kindergartners enrolled in bilingual classes. The CAI programs provided systematic and structured exercises in developing phonological awareness and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Phonics, Sight Vocabulary, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Deborah C. Simmons; Michael D. Coyne; Shanna Hagan-Burke; Oi-man Kwok; Leslie Simmons; Caitlin Johnson; Yuanyuan Zou; Aaron B. Taylor; Athena Lentini McAlenney; Maureen Ruby; Yvel C. Crevecoeur – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study compared the effects of 2 supplemental interventions on the beginning reading performance of kindergarteners identified as at risk of reading difficulty. Students (N = 206) were assigned randomly at the classroom level either to an explicit/systematic commercial program or to a school-designed practice intervention taught 30 min per day…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervention, Beginning Reading, Effect Size
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Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Kwok, Oi-man; Zou, Yuanyuan; Johnson, Caitlin; Simmons, Deborah; Coyne, Michael D. – Journal of Special Education, 2011
This study examined the influences of problem behaviors on kindergarten reading outcomes and investigated the extent to which explicit, code-based reading instruction moderated those relations among 206 children identified as being at risk of reading difficulty. Children from the classrooms of 57 kindergarten teachers in 12 schools were randomly…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Reading, Phonemics, Alphabets
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Carreker, Suzanne H.; Neuhaus, Graham F.; Swank, Paul R.; Johnson, Paul; Monfils, Mary Jo; Montemayor, Mary Lou – Reading Psychology, 2007
A longitudinal investigation determined the growth of reading comprehension from third to fifth grades in a cohort of students who received Language Enrichment (LE), an Orton-Gillingham-based literacy program, during first and second grades. The LE instruction was provided by regular education teachers who received comprehensive training in…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 3, Grade 4