Skip to main content
Implement for Impact
Search Find
Explore Methodology

Arthur: Using an Animated Children's Series to Improve English Language Development among Kindergarten Students

Add to Comparison

Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

English as a Second Language (ESL) Program

Duration

October to May, with 3 episodes per week

Grade

K

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Arthur is an animated children's series intended for use with young children, particularly English language learners, to target English language development, specifically narrative skill development.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on narrative skill development

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). Arthur. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/259.

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.