Corrective Reading produced statistically significant positive effects on oral reading fluency in a randomized controlled trial of third-grade struggling readers¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 2007 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i1 In the Torgesen et al. (2006) randomized controlled trial, the Corrective Reading group outperformed the comparison group on the Oral Reading Fluency test (effect size 0.27, statistically significant). → Corrective Reading—What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report 2007

Evidence¶

Corrective Reading—What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report 2007¶

Corrective Reading—What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report. (2007). U.S. Department of Education, What Works Clearinghouse. https://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/disadv/title1interimreport/index.html

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Randomized controlled trial of 79 third-grade students in eight Pennsylvania school units; the WWC findings table for the fluency domain shows an effect size of 0.27, statistically significant at α = 0.05, and an improvement index of +11 percentile points favoring Corrective Reading.

"Oral Reading Fluency Grade 3 8/79 66.04 (39.20) 55.33 (39.20) 10.71 0.27 Statistically significant +11"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it

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In the Rashotte, MacPhee, and Torgesen (2001) RCT, SpellRead™ produced statistically significant positive effects on alphabetics and reading fluency for fifth- and sixth-grade struggling readers after eight weeks — related
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`title`	`Corrective Reading produced statistically significant positive effects on oral reading fluency in a randomized controlled trial of third-grade struggling readers`
`description`	`Corrective Reading produced statistically significant positive effects on oral reading fluency in a randomized controlled trial of third-grade struggling readers`
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