Thank you, Nancy for this summary. Sounds like the Reading First debacle. I'm not surprised but it's encouraging to hear it from someone who actually did the reading and had to report on it. What were the major flaws in the Project Follow Through research? Elisa
Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Dalhousie Elementary Calgary, Canada The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. —Helen Keller Visit my blog, A Teacher's Ruminations, and post a message. http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/ what does the independent research say about Direct Instruction programs Elisa, I did some research on this exact question in my dissertation. I could write about it for hours (actually I did!), but what I found in a very limited nutshell, was that in kindergarten intervention students, DI works teaching children to decode. It did not make a difference in comprehension. In first grade intervention students, writing workshop worked just as well as DI in teaching children to decode and that the children also became better writers! I did a lot of reading of the research Amy cited, Project Follow Through, and it had some major flaws. DI people rely heavily on Follow Through research, which is now over 40 years old. Nancy **************Need a job? Find an employment agency near you. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000003) _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
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