Research

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Learning to Read a Second Language: What Does the Research Say and What Do We Do About It?

Granite High School, Salt Lake City, Utah

Scope of Work
Data collection conducted by resource teacher at Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah

Tool
Pre- and post-test provided with the Reading Horizons courseware (correlated with the Slosson Oral Reading test)

Conducted August 2005-May 2006

Evaluator's Observations
"My students are doing incredibly well. There was two-to-three years' progress in four weeks. I thought, There is no way this is happening. But it happened over and over and over with these students. To have a student who was at the kindergarten reading level as a junior now reading at a fifth grade level ... you can't put a value on that. One of my students picked up a book for the first time and read. If students have the confidence to decode, then they will embrace reading. It is truly one of the most rewarding semesters I've had teaching in my past 22 years!"