Limited Evidence of Effectiveness: Strong Evidence of Modest Effects |
| Rating |
Program |
Type |
Description |
Contact / Website |
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Open Court Reading |
Curr* |
Basal textbook that uses scripted phonics lessons |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.sraonline.com/oc_home.html |
| Limited Evidence of Effectiveness: Weak Evidence with Notable Effects |
| Rating |
Program |
Type |
Description |
Contact / Website |
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Carbo Reading Styles |
IP |
An approach for adapting reading strategies to students’ diverse learning styles |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.nrsi.com/our_research_carbo_reading.html |
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Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) |
IP |
A professional development program that emphasizes individualized instruction, positive reinforcement, and constant assessment of children’s mastery levels. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ecri.cc |
|
Fast ForWord |
CAI |
Computerized program designed to strengthen memory, attention, and mental processing. |
Website: www.scilearn.com |
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Lightspan |
CAI |
A technology application that provides parents with Sony Playstations and digital video multi-players linked to their televisions, and then uses linked instructional software in both home and school. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.plato.com/Elementary-Solutions.aspx |
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Literature-Based Program |
IP |
A reading approach that supplements traditional basal textbooks with extensive literature in many genres, independent reading and writing periods, directed reading/listening thinking activities, read-aloud sessions, and classroom literacy centers.
|
E-mail: [email protected] |
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My Reading Coach |
CAI |
Reading software that focuses on phonics, word structure, vocabulary, and comprehension. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.myreadingcoach.com |
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OpenBook to Literacy |
CAI |
A software program that uses a combination of voice, text, pictures, video, and graphics to teach reading in a self-paced individualized format, as a supplement to classroom instruction. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.openbooklearning.com |
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PALS |
IP |
A technique in which children work in pairs, taking turns as teacher and learner, to learn a structured sequence of literacy skills, such as phonemic awareness, phonics, sound blending, passage reading, and story retelling. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: kc.vanderbilt.edu/pals |
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QuickReads |
Curr |
A supplementary program designed to increase fluency, build vocabulary and background knowledge, and improve comprehension. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.quickreads.org |
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Reader’s Theater |
IP |
A cooperative learning method designed to enhance students’ reading by having them read the scripts of plays. |
Complete contact form at: http://scholastic.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/scholastic.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
Website: www.teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/readerstheater.htm |
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Reciprocal Teaching |
IP |
An instructional strategy in which students work in small groups to help one another generate their own questions about a text they are reading, summarize parts of the text, clarify word meanings and confusing text passages, and predict what might come next. |
E-mail: [email protected]
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|
Strategy Instruction (Belgian Model) |
IP |
Belgian strategy instruction program that focuses cognitive and metacognitive skills such as summarization, graphic organizers, and prediction to help students comprehend text. |
E-mail: [email protected] |
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Student Success Skills |
IP |
A small group counseling intervention in which counselors use a structured approach emphasizing achievement in academic, social, and self-management skills. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.studentsuccessskills.com/ |
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Thinking Maps |
IP |
A program that teaches students to use graphic organizers to help them understand concepts. |
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.thinkingmaps.com |
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