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Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP): Teaching Early Reading Skills to Kindergarteners

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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

Early Childhood

Duration

6 months

Grade

K

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP) is a research-based program that integrates technology into learning activities to teach children to read, write, and keyboard. WERP was designed to target emergent reading skills in kindergarten students. The program uses a variety of methods to teach reading skills, including phonological awareness, phonics, and comprehension. WERP is implemented in kindergarten classrooms, and students use the program for a minimum of 1100 minutes (6 months) during the school year. The program is designed to be used in conjunction with other reading instruction, and teachers are trained to use the program as part of their reading curriculum.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on reading ability for kindergartners in the Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP)

Positive effect on reading ability for males in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for females in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for Whites, Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asians in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for kindergartners with a primary home language of English, Spanish, and other languages in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for English language learners in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for students who spoke a primary home language other than English or Spanish in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for kindergartners in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quartiles of reading achievement in the WERP program

Positive effect on reading ability for kindergartners in the WERP program who used the

Source

Connie, P. & Stephen, P. (2006). Evaluation of the Waterford Early Reading Program in Kindergarten, 2005-06 (ED501576). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501576.pdf.

Data Sample by Population

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