Syntes: An Experimental Evaluation of Guided Reading and Explicit Interventions for Primary-Grade Students At-Risk for Reading Difficulties (2014)

Källa: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4712689/ (PMC author manuscript)

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• [full text] 218 at-risk readers randomised to guided reading (GR), explicit intervention with systematic phonics (EX) or typical school instruction; n = 70, 70, 66 at posttest.
• [full text] Pre–post gains (standard scores): Word Attack EX 4.90, GR 1.71, typical 0.34; Passage Comprehension EX 5.65, GR 1.47 (table of mean differences).
• [abstract] EX and GR did not differ significantly from each other; EX beat typical instruction on decoding and one comprehension measure.

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• [assessment] About 70 per arm, so the head-to-head contrast is underpowered; point estimates favour EX. The paper says end of Grade 1 in the abstract and second grade in its limitations.

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