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Open Court Reading: Teaching Alphabetics, Print Knowledge, and Phonemic Awareness to Beginning Readers

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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

Full school year

Grades

1, 2, 3

Personnel

General Education Teacher, Coach, Principal

Intervention Summary

Open Court Reading is a curriculum that includes textbooks, workbooks, decodable books, and anthologies, and is intended to target reading achievement and comprehension in elementary school students. The curriculum consists of three main components: (a) Preparing to Read, (b) Reading and Responding, and (c) Language Arts. The program is designed to be used for 2.5 hours per day with grades 1-2 and for 2 hours per day with grades 4-6. Teachers were given a teacher's edition of the curriculum that included scripted direct instruction lessons and diagnostic and assessment packages. The intervention was implemented from fall to spring during the 2005-06 school year.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on reading comprehension

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2014). Open Court Reading©. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/232.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.