ABRACADABRA (A Balanced Approach for Children Designed to Achieve Best Results for All)

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Description

ABRACADABRA is a publicly available web-based literacy program developed for elementary students, including those with or at risk for reading difficulties, and provides customizable activities in phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.

Components

• ABRACADABRA web-based literacy program: ABRACADABRA (A Balanced Approach for Children Designed to Achieve Best Results for All) is a publicly available, web-based literacy program that was the most frequently evaluated program in this meta-analysis's corpus, used in 12 of the 50 publicly available treatment conditions. The article states it "was developed based on the recommendations of the NRP (2000) report and targets a range of skills, including phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency" and that its "Activities in ABRACADABRA can be customized to a student's specific abilities and challenges." The article cites a meta-analysis of 17 ABRACADABRA studies estimating a weighted average effect of g = 0.26. (Dahl-Leonard et al. (2024))

Claims

• Technology-delivered literacy instruction produces a small, statistically significant positive effect on norm- or criterion-referenced literacy outcomes for K-5 students (g = 0.24) [+M]

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Key Sources

• Dahl-Leonard, K., Hall, C., & Peacott, D. (2024). A meta-analysis of technology-delivered literacy instruction for elementary students. Education Tech Research Dev (2024) 72:1507–1538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10354-0

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title	ABRACADABRA (A Balanced Approach for Children Designed to Achieve Best Results for All)
description	ABRACADABRA is a publicly available web-based literacy program developed for elementary students, including those with or at risk for reading difficulties, and provides customizable activities in phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
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