Please find below a series of websites 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.
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 of 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
http://www.dldcec.org/alerts
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)
Child Directed Teaching Methods: A Discriminatory Practice in Western Education
http://www.higherscores.org/
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.