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D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Lose, Mary K.; Kelly, Robert H. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2017
Though the immediate effect of Reading Recovery (RR) is both strong and well established, the longer term or sustained effect has been less studied and the evidence regarding it has been less conclusive. Michigan Reading Recovery students (n = 328) were compared to control students (n = 264) while in first (2009-2010), third (2011), and fourth…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Miller, Heidi Thomson – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This is a quantitative research project utilizing secondary data. Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention are two early literacy interventions based on a whole language and phonetic approach to reading instruction. For the purposes of this study, the end-of-first-grade benchmark is a Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) 18 and the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Literacy Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Choi, Hee-sook; Bieber, Gregg – Journal of Research in Education, 2011
Five years of emergent literacy and literacy data from 2002 to 2007 were reviewed for first through third graders in a small, rural school in the Midwest. Forty first graders had received Reading Recovery services over that time span. Their scores on DIBELS were compared to 41 low average to average students. Subsequent placement in special…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Emergent Literacy, Program Effectiveness, Rural Schools
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Paris, Alison H.; Paris, Scott G. – Cognition and Instruction, 2007
This study provided 5 weeks of direct strategy instruction about narrative elements and relations in 4 first-grade classrooms (n = 83), all with materials that made minimal decoding demands on children's reading. Two comparison classrooms (n = 40) received comparable instruction on language development and poetry. A battery of assessments given at…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Primary Education, Statistical Analysis
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Sexton, C. Waynel – Journal of Educational Research, 1989
The purpose of this study was to determine if the DISTAR Reading I Program was more effective than a basal reading program in increasing school-based language ability for 80 first-grade Black students. (Author/IAH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Black Students, Grade 1, Language Acquisition