The HELPS one-to-one fluency program significantly outperformed control on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension for grade 2 Spanish-speaking ELLs¶
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q3 i? Grade 2 Spanish-speaking ELLs who received HELPS significantly outperformed the control group on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension. → ev-2
Evidence¶
Taboada Barber 2026¶
Taboada Barber, A., Urbano Aguilar, S., Lopez Rodriguez, A., and Pan, Y. (2026, September). Performing Is Not Teaching: What the Evidence Says About Reading Fluency Practices for Emergent Bilinguals. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/316
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Begeny et al. (2012) evaluated the HELPS program with the Gray Oral Reading Test, Fourth Edition, in brief one-to-one sessions two to three times per week of about 10 minutes; students "significantly outperformed the control group on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension". No effect size is printed.
"Students who received HELPS significantly outperformed the control group on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Fluency-building activities for struggling readers in grades 4–9 have strong evidence, based on 33 studies — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Christ and Davie (2009) found positive, statistically significant effects of Read Naturally® Software Edition on three reading fluency measures — related
- Primary-language (Spanish) oral instructions yielded significantly higher English reading comprehension than English-only instructions — related
- Interventions combining repeated reading, modeled/assisted reading, and explicit feedback outperformed control groups in English reading fluency for emergent bilinguals — a broader claim this one bears on
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The HELPS one-to-one fluency program significantly outperformed control on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension for grade 2 Spanish-speaking ELLs |
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The HELPS one-to-one fluency program significantly outperformed control on GORT Fluency and GORT-Comprehension for grade 2 Spanish-speaking ELLs |
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