Success Stories/Evidence Data
The Proof is in the Classroom.
From day one, this curriculum has proven itself far beyond the test scores in both the regular classroom and special education.
Project Read® Program Review posted on the Florida Center for Reading Research Website!
Project Read® Program receives highest scores for the five components of effective reading instruction and is recommended as a core program as well as intervention and supplemental program.
First Grader's Succeed with Phonics at Liberty Elementary in Riverside, CA
Please take a moment to read the excerpt of a letter written by a Project Read® Program teacher and trainer regarding the success of a group of first graders in Riverside, CA, whose reading scores improved tremendously over a six week period using the Project Read® Curriculum. Judy wrote:
"When we began, none of these students could consistently blend or segment two sounds. They could not identify the first, middle, or end sound of a word. They did not understand how letters or punctuation worked and couldn't consistently respond to questions such as, "What letter comes before 'n' on your alphabet strip." All exhibited b/d reversals and did not monitor their reading. They did not attend to the guide lines on paper and letter formation was poor.
The students received daily intervention for 6 weeks for a total of 22 hours. Improvement in all areas is evident. Every student can consistently blend, segment, and identify the loocation of cvc words. Most attend to punctuation, especially the comma and exclamation mark. They correct each other's letter formation, and they love to read and spell!
In addition to this, many of their classmates with poor fluency were provided approximately 10 extra minutes of fluency practice using the Bonnie Kline stories. These two interventions resulted in strong reading improvement. Based on fluency measures, this school's first grade team moved from 26th of 30 elementary schools to 13th of 30 schools!''
Please Click Here to see Liberty Elementary's First Grade Intensive Intervention Data.
Success at the Fernbrook School in Randolph, New Jersey...
Elaine Russo, a Reading Specialist at the Fernbrook School in Randolph, NJ recently sent a testimonial and data on the school's use of the Project Read Phonics curriculum. This evidence represents another very successful year for the school's first graders that have used Project Read® Curriculum as a part of their Early Reading Intervention Program. Some student test scores improved by as much as 59% points from fall to spring. To read all of Elaine Russo's testimonial letter and to see the assessment/testing results, please click on the link below.
Project Read® Written Expression receives credit from the Dunn Institute in Rhode Island for helping to improve state writing scores among their fifth graders.
Read the article from the Dunn Institute here...
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Clemson Elementary School's Fifth Grade Writing Scores...
As a fifth grade teacher at Clemson Elementary School in Clemson, SC, Barry Burnett's students have had great success in the past year using the Language Circle/Project Read Framing Your Thoughts curriculum in the classroom. Below is Barry's testimony, along with his students' test scores, and some photo's from his classroom.
Students in Barry Burnett's fifth grade classroom participate in a Framing Your Thoughts lesson
Barry's Testimony...
The fifth grade students at Clemson Elementary were instructed with the Framing Your Thoughts curriculum during the school year 2006-2007. The multi-sensory strategies were beneficial to all students. We serve a wide range of students at this school. Students range from being highly gifted to students who do not perform to their fullest potential. This program benefited both the gifted and academically challenged students. We used the systematic approach to teach the function of the language and then transferred those skills to composition writing. All students were actively engaged throughout every lesson. Students were excited about writing. They enjoyed the body language along with the hands-on approaches. Students would say:
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"I finally understand how our language works!"
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"Writing is so much fun now that I know how to put my thoughts down on paper!"
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"After learning how to put words into sentences, I am actually a good writer."
The evidence from our scores on the state PACT test shows that students were extremely successful in the area of Language Arts. Not only did they do welll on the state test, their confidence in their ability to write was tremendous. I am so thankful to be able to use the Framing Your Thoughts curriculum with our students!
Barry Burnett
Fifth Grade Teacher
Clemson Elementary
Fifth graders at Clemson Elementary use Sentence Builders in the classroom
Below are the test results of the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) for Clemson Elementary's 5th grade students that had been instructed in the Project Read Framing Your Thoughts curriculum:
Writing Scores:
Number of students tested in 5th grade: 98
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59 students scored advanced in the area of writing
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27 students scored proficient in the area of writing
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10 students scored basic in the area of writing
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2 students scored below standard in the area of writing
Case Studies
Pilot Study: At the end of the 1969-1970 school year the experimental group had made 2 to 3 times the progress of the control group as measured by standardized tests.
Major Study: At the end of the major study, 12 of the 19 behavioral objectives were met at a .001 level of significance. Referrals for special education services were reduced by 72% over the three year period.
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Texas Longitudinal Study (1994 - 2001)
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