Bringing Reading Science to Practice for English Learners: A Transformation Story

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In this article, Laura Stewart, Chief Academic Officer, highlights the critical need to provide a robust word study program in the intermediate grades. Laura shares take an in-depth look at why students need to close foundational skill gaps, learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words, and receive explicit morphology instruction to navigate complex text.

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Here we take an in-depth look at the Wicomico School District in Maryland, whose leadership and literacy team worked together to transform their approach to reading instruction. They saw, in return, strong student improvement. One changemaker, Dr. Renee R. Hall, offers tips for other educators on advancing literacy in their school or district.

A two-year evaluation of a multi-product implementation of 95 Percent Group Products was conducted in the Wicomico, Maryland school district. Two similar schools were paired and compared during the 2020-2021 (remote) school year and the 2021-2022 (in-person) school year. During the two-year study, the effect size of the 95 Percent Group treatment group made two times more progress than that of the comparison group (0.64 vs. 0.31)

“Since founding Tools 4 Reading in 2010, my team and I have taken seriously our commitment to work directly with teachers to embrace the science behind reading and to give them the tools to do so,” Dr. Dahlgren said. “Our passion has only intensified over the years as we have watched these educators feel empowered as they implement effective reading instruction in their classrooms. In 95 Percent Group, I am confident we have found the perfect partner who shares our beliefs and goals and will carry our mission into the future.”