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Download full textMeier, Joanne D.; Invernizzi, Marcia – 1999
A study implemented and evaluated the Book Buddies model using National Service volunteers as tutors for high-risk first-grade students in a high-poverty urban setting. Using a design with a randomly assigned control group, results show that tutoring sessions produced clear effects. Children who received 40 Book Buddies lessons significantly…
Descriptors: Grade 1, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Brown, Rachel; And Others – 1995
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Students Achieving Independent Learning (SAIL) program, an educator-developed approach to transactional strategies instruction (TSI). Five groups of six previously low-achieving second-grade students received a year of transactional strategies instruction and five groups of six students received a year…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
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Direct linkBlachman, Benita A.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Fletcher, Jack M.; Francis, David J.; Clonan, Sheila M.; Shaywitz, Bennett A.; Shaywitz, Sally E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Second- and 3rd-grade children with poor word-level skills were randomly assigned to 8 months of explicit instruction emphasizing the phonologic and orthographic connections in words and text-based reading or to remedial reading programs provided by the schools. At posttest, treatment children showed significantly greater gains than control…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 2, Remedial Reading, Remedial Programs
