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Dear Parents: Please find below a series of web sites on Direct Instruction. These sites vary a great deal and represent descriptions of Direct Instruction, examples of how it is designed, summaries of research studies and endorsements from major US educational personnel including the American Federation of Teachers. Also find reference to an unsolicited letter voicing concern over the wide spread use of an educational approach whose claims are not supported by the scientific evidence, namely Reading Recovery.The letter has been sent to US policy makers, educational leaders and researchers and federal research organizations who are increasingly being called upon to either support the use of Reading Recovery or to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the program before Congress.
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The Research Base for Reading Mastery (DI reading program) http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adiep/rdgtxt.htm Research-Based Reading Programs – SRA Reading Mastery (DI) (Also see REWARDS – another program used by V2 Educational Services and co-authored by one of the owners of V2.) http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=318 Education Commission of the States http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/18/61/1861.htm AFT (American Federation or Teachers) Six Promising Programs http://www.aft.org/edissues/whatworks/six/di/page4.htm Educator's Guide to Schoolwide Reform http://www.nea.org/nr/nr990211.html Current Practice Alerts, Council for Exceptional Children Research on DI Book Summary http://www.edresearch.com/summary2.htm Teaching Direct Instruction Reading http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/direadingcourse.html Series of articles on Direct Instruction and its Founder http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/DI.html Sample tutorial on Direct Instruction plus more info http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/387/OpenModules/Engelmann/ Best Practices: Direct Instruction http://www.coe.wayne.edu/TSC/di.html Direct Instruction: A Transactional Model of Learning http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/instruct/instevnt.html What is this thing called Phonemic Awareness and why is it so important. http://www.educationnews.org/phonemic_awareness_what_does_it_.htm
(click on Publications by B. Grossen for the following two articles) Studies cite Learning Gains in DI Schools http://edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=31direct.h21 A Synthesis of Research on Reading from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nrrf.org/synthesis_research.htm
If you are interested in the Reading Recovery information previously listed on this site, please e-mail us and we will send it to you electronically. |