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Download full textSolís, Michael; El Zein, Farah; Black, Marie; Miller, Alexandra; Therrien, William J.; Invernizzi, Marcia – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This multiple baseline across participants study examined the efficacy of a data-based individualization word study intervention for students with autism spectrum disorder (N=5) and low word reading skills. An experienced interventionist provided 1:1 word reading instruction in 30-minute sessions five times per week for an average of 10 sessions…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Word Study Skills, Intervention
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Literacy skills are critical to students' academic achievement and setting them on a path to successful high school graduation and readiness for college and careers. "Passport Reading Journeys" [TM] is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Literacy skills are critical to students' academic achievement and setting them on a path to successful high school graduation and readiness for college and careers. "Passport Reading Journeys" [TM] is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Literacy skills are critical to students' academic achievement and setting them on a path to successful high school graduation and readiness for college and careers. "Passport Reading Journeys" [TM] is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
Direct linkSolis, Michael; Miciak, Jeremy; Vaughn, Sharon; Fletcher, Jack M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
We describe findings from a series of longitudinal studies utilizing a response to intervention framework implemented over 3 years with students in Grades 6 through 8 with reading disabilities and poor reading comprehension. Students were identified based on reading comprehension scores in Grade 5 (n = 1,083) and then randomized to treatment or…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Caverly, Sarah; Bell, Nance; Sullivan, Kate; Fong, Carlton; Atwood, Erin; Borman, Geoffrey; Park, So Jung; Jones, Debra Hughes – SEDL, 2012
The Louisiana Striving Readers evaluation assessed the implementation and effectiveness of the Voyager "Passport Reading Journeys" (PRJ), a widely used supplemental literacy intervention for struggling adolescent readers that reflects the research-based practices recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000) and other more recent…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Grade 6
Herold, Marina; Alant, Erna; Bornman, Juan – South African Journal of Education, 2008
Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. We aimed to investigate the influence of word-prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. To this end, we selected 80 Grade 4-6 children with spelling difficulties in a school for special needs to participate in a research…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Spelling, Accuracy, Special Needs Students
Personke, Carl; Knight, Lester – Elementary English, 1967
To determine the effect of proofreading on spelling, a study was conducted with middle- and upper-middle-class students in four sixth-grade classes in two schools in Austin, Texas. Two classes were used as control groups, and two as experimental groups. Teachers of both groups participated in the planning sessions to prepare 14 lessons with…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 6
