In a reservation-school literacy assessment study, fourth-grade AI/AN students were average or above in phonemic awareness, word recognition, vocabulary, and reading rate but low in comprehension¶

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q2 i? Fourth-grade American Indian students at a Washington reservation public school scored average and above on discrete literacy skills but low in comprehension, specifically using textual information to answer questions. → Nelson-Barber 2015

Evidence¶

Nelson-Barber 2015¶

Nelson-Barber, S., & Trumbull, E. (2015). The Common Core Initiative, Education Outcomes, and American Indian/Alaska Native Students: Observations and Recommendations [a report from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) at WestEd]. San Francisco: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED570362

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The report cites Buly's (2005) in-depth literacy assessment study of fourth-grade American Indian students at a Washington reservation public school: students were "average and above" in phonemic awareness, word recognition, orally tested vocabulary, and reading rate "but low in comprehension." No effect size is printed.

"An in-depth study of literacy assessment involving fourth-grade American Indian students attending a public school on a reservation in the state of Washington showed that the majority of students were average and above in skills of phonemic awareness, word recognition, orally tested vocabulary, and reading rate but low in comprehension"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Automatic word recognition frees resources for comprehension — related
One year of STARI significantly improves word recognition, basic reading comprehension efficiency, and morphological awareness in struggling middle school readers — related
Phoneme awareness is a stronger predictor of reading development than rhyme awareness — related
Morphological instruction improves word-level literacy outcomes (decoding, spelling, vocabulary, morphological knowledge) but shows no reliable effect on reading comprehension — related
The MSDS curriculum showed no statistically significant effects on word recognition, spelling, fluency, or comprehension outcomes — related

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`title`	`In a reservation-school literacy assessment study, fourth-grade AI/AN students were average or above in phonemic awareness, word recognition, vocabulary, and reading rate but low in comprehension`
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