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Evaluation of Guided Reading vs. Explicit Interventions
Research study that found an explicit intervention in phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, and comprehension demonstrated stronger impacts on student reading than did a Guided Reading intervention.
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"Guessing: Why the Reading Wars Won't End" (Letter printed in the Washington Post)
Letter signed by 41 reading researchers, scientists, and academics who support effective, scientificially-based reading instruction. Provides insights into the lack of teacher preparation in early reading instruction. Also discusses the lack of research behind teaching students to guess at words when reading.
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Guessing Words from Context is Not Reading
Paper that concisely explains why teaching students to guess at words when reading is a terrible strategy. Written by an award-winning reading teacher and interventionist in Australia.
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