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Since 1984 when Reading Recovery began in the United States, approximately 75% of students who complete the full 12- to 20-week intervention can meet grade-level expectations in reading and writing. Follow-up studies indicate that most Reading Recovery students ... do well on standardized tests and maintain their gains in later years.
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Tinker's landmark 1936 study investigated the reliability and validity of eye-movement research as it applies to reading. One of his primary concerns was whether the artificial situation that necessarily accompanied eye-movement studies conducted in the laboratory caused subjects to alter significantly their reading strategies and processes. He had 57 college students read one version of a reading test at a table away from the eye-movement apparatus and then read another version of the test while under typical eye-movement recording conditions. The results were encouraging for eye-movement researchers: “Although some subjects did better and some poorer before the camera, the group as a whole gave an entirely typical performance in the photographic situation” (Tinker, 1936, p. 742). Tinker's conclusion that eye-movement research can reveal authentic reading behavior has allowed workers in this area to extend their findings to situations outside the laboratory.
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Professional development is an essential part of Reading Recovery, utilizing a three-tiered approach that includes teachers, teacher leaders, and university trainers. Professional development for all Reading Recovery professionals begins with an academic year of graduate-level study and continues in subsequent years. With the support of the teacher leader, Reading Recovery teachers develop observational skills and a repertoire of intervention procedures tailored to meet the individual needs of at-risk students.
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Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional development programs, for school districts throughout the United States. Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading programs, to more than 900 school districts in cities such as Miami, Richmond, New York and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, L.P. is a business unit of Voyager Learning Company (VLCY) and is based in Dallas, Texas. For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.
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READ 180 is one of the most thoroughly researched and documented reading intervention programs available today. Currently in use in over 11,000 classrooms nationwide, READ 180 is the result of a collaborative effort between Vanderbilt University and the Orange County Public Schools in Florida. Response from numerous large-scale validation studies in Phoenix, AZ, Santa Rosa, FL, Los Angeles, CA, Des Moines, IA and elsewhere are unequivocal in their findings -- implementation of READ 180 has resulted in solid gains in student reading scores. More information is available at www.scholastic.com/read180.
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Roland Good, at the University of Oregon, and Joseph Torgesen, at Florida State University, have found that word reading rates correlate with scores on literacy tests. Independently, they found that over 90% of students who read faster than 110 words per minute meet state standards. 75% of students who read at less than 80 words per minute fail to meet state literacy standard.
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