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Read, Write & Type!: Teaching Phonological Awareness and Phonics to Early Elementary Students

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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

N/A

Grade

1

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Read, Write & Type! is a software program that targets the development of phonological awareness, phonics, and reading skills in students. The program includes lessons that begin with individual sounds and letters, progressing to words, sentences, and stories. It also includes activities such as Power Fountain to practice speed and accuracy in writing and typing, and E-mail Tower, a simulated e-mail program, to practice writing short messages.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on alphabetics

No effect on comprehension

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2007). Read, Write & Type!. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/370.

Data Sample by Population

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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.