Phonics/word study occupied the largest share of observed resource-room reading instruction (32%) at high-average quality, but a quarter was rated weak¶
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q2 i? Phonics/word study encompassed 696 minutes (31.96% of observed instruction) with average teacher quality of 3.05, though 25.2% was deemed weak. → Swanson 2010
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Swanson 2010¶
Swanson, E. A., & Vaughn, S. (2010). An Observation Study of Reading Instruction Provided to Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities in the Resource Room. Psychology in the Schools, 47(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.20484
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Observational coding of 2,178 minutes across 10 classrooms using the ICE-R. The results report "Phonics/word study instruction encompassed 696 minutes, or 31.96% of the total observed reading instruction", average quality 3.05, 25.2% rated weak, and 66% of word-study time with high student engagement.
"Phonics/word study instruction encompassed 696 minutes, or 31.96% of the total observed reading instruction."
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Related Claims¶
- Teachers and students in elementary resource rooms remained on task during reading instruction, with overall student engagement averaging 2.76 on a 3-point scale — related
- Comprehension instruction in resource rooms consisted mostly of teacher question-and-answer monitoring rather than explicit comprehension-strategy instruction — related
- Phonological awareness instruction closely tied to word reading (blending and segmenting phonemes) comprised less than 1% of observed resource-room reading time — related
- Systematic phonics outperforms unsystematic or no-phonics instruction on children's reading overall, but its advantage over whole-word teaching on novel words is untested in children and contested — a broader claim this one bears on
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Phonics/word study occupied the largest share of observed resource-room reading instruction (32%) at high-average quality, but a quarter was rated weak |
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Phonics/word study occupied the largest share of observed resource-room reading instruction (32%) at high-average quality, but a quarter was rated weak |
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