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Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
The Early Literacy Skills Builder was created out of the need for a specific literacy program for students with disabilities, who need need additional and alternative instructional support.
The ELSB is a multicompnent approach to literacy for children ages 5 to 10. Its first part, Building with Symbols, is a scripted curriculum that aims to increase vocabulary, comprehension and phonic skills. This is achieved by incorporating books, puppets and flash cards into the instruction. The second part, Building with stories, teaches skills for interacting with books and listening comprehension for student participation in a read-aloud event.
ELSB has seven distinct levels, each with five structured lessons, recommended for 90 minutes of instruction. Participating Staff and parents are trained by an instructional DVD. |
| Goal / Mission |
The goal of ELSB is to help moderately to severly disabled children develop the skills and behaviors they need to succeed in a standard reading program. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
The effectiveness of ELSB was evaluated in randomized controlled trial, where the approach was compared to a sight word approach.
93 students with severe developmental disabilities who were enrolled in Grades K through 4 were randomly assigned to either the multicomponent early literacy curriculum or a sight word comparison curriculum (the traditional curriculum used to teach reading for students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities). The study was implemented over the period of an academic school year and revealed that students in the multicomponent early literacy curriculum had 30-49% higher (p<0.05) mean literacy scores than the students in the sight word condition. |
| Categories |
Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education
Education / Literacy
Health / Disabilities
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| Organization(s) |
Attainment Company |
| Date of Publication |
11/4/2010 |
| Date of Implementation |
2007 |
| Geographic Type |
Rural |
| Location |
Country: USA |
| Primary Contact |
Diane Browder
College of Education Building, Room 346, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
(704) 687-8836
dbrowder@uncc.edu
http://www.attainmentcompany.com/featured/elsb/...
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| For more details |
http://www.attainmentcompany.com/featured/elsb/...
http://rse.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/11/04...
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| Target Audience |
Children |
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