Words Their Way's developmentally-driven, hands-on instructional approach has been a
phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students. The keys …

The purpose of this review is to synthesize the existing research on decodability as a text
characteristic examining how reading decodable text impacts students' reading performance …

At-risk 1st graders were randomly assigned to tutoring in more or less decodable texts, and
instruction in the same phonics program. The more decodable group (n= 39) read …

In this quasi-experimental study, which is part of a series of investigations on supplemental
reading tutoring variations, the relative effectiveness of more intense decoding instruction or …

Phonological awareness and phonics instruction are necessary components of beginning
reading instruction and require teachers to have specialized content, pedagogical, and …

Researchers disagree about the value of controlling the decodability of texts for students
with reading difficulty, specifically what type of text they should read: decodable texts (words …

Systematic and explicit phonics instruction: A scientific, evidence-based approach to teaching
the alphabetic principle Page 1 49 CHAPTER 4 Systematic and explicit phonics instruction: A …

Young children of Color from minoritized communities can co‐author decodable stories
using phonics skills they have been taught, their lived experiences, and home languages …

This study examined first graders' accuracy and reading rate in highly decodable and
qualitatively leveled texts. The study inspected accuracy and rate by different levels of …

In this study, the student texts and teacher guides of two reading intervention programs for at-
risk, first-grade students were analyzed and compared: Fountas and Pinnell's Leveled …