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Comparisons of Beginning Literacy Programs: Alternative Paths to the Same Learning Outcome.

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Traweek, Dean; Berninger, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997

This study compared two beginning reading programs, Integrated Reading-Writing (IR-W) and DISTAR in comparable urban schools with students "at risk" for literacy problems. Although the two programs resulted in comparable gains in word recognition and overall reading achievement by the end of first grade, children in IR-W tended to…

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Educationally Disadvantaged