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Implementation Of The Sound Partners Reading Program, Nancy E. Marchand-Martella, Ronald C. Martella, J. Ron Nelson, Lynn Waterbury, Sharon A. Shelley, Charalambos Cleanthous, David Hatfield

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Eleven first grade and 10 second grade students, all with reading and behavioral difficulties, received one-on-one tutoring using the Sound Partners reading program (Vadasy & Pool, 1997). Students received 30 min of tutoring each day for 5 months. Students were assessed on Letter-Word Identification, Passage Comprehension, and Word Attack subtests of the Woodcock-Johnson-Revised (WJ-R): Tests of Achievement. An informal measure (rapid letter naming) was also used. Results indicated that gains of approximately 1 standard deviation (or greater) were noted for subtests of the WJ-R for first-grade students; second graders showed relatively stable performance from pre- to posttest assessments. Similar performance …