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Chapman, James W.; Tunmer, William E.; Prochnow, Jane E. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2001
Examines the relation between the development of phonological processing skills and the effectiveness of Reading Recovery (RR) in a whole language instructional context. Finds that: RR and poor reader comparison groups had deficiencies in phonological-processing skills before participation; participation in the program did not reduce these…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies, Phonology, Primary Education

Iversen, Sandra; Tunmer, William E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
To determine whether the Reading Recovery (RR) program would be more effective if systematic instruction in phonological-recoding skills were incorporated, first-grade at-risk readers were divided into 3 groups of 32 children each (modified RR, standard RR, and standard intervention groups). Reading progress was strongly related to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Encoding (Psychology), Grade 1