This study examines the effectiveness of scaling up a vocabulary intervention, pre-Kāfirst grade, using a structured adaptation of the World of Words that allowed teachers some autonomy over its implementation. The purpose was to determine whether such an adaptation could maintain fidelity and promote positive child outcomes.
Curriculum Associates: Putting Scientific Evidence to Work in Reading Instruction by D. Ray Reutzel
The reading wars between proponents of phonics-based and other approaches designed to teach children to read have been around for many years. [E]very few decades this …battle erupts anew….