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Intervention: Waterford Early Reading Level One™

Program information1


Developer and contact

Developed by Waterford Research Institute, Waterford Early Reading Level One™ is distributed by Pearson Digital Learning. Address: 6710 East Camelback Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251. Email: pdlinfo@pearson.com. Web: http://www.pearsondigital.com/waterford/. Telephone: (888) 977-7900.

Scope of use

According to the developer, more than 500,000 children across the United States use the various programs provided by Waterford.

Teaching

Waterford Early Reading Level One™ provides individualized, year-long instruction in daily 15-minute sessions. Teachers are advised to review both class and individual reports at least once a month to monitor progress and guide classroom instruction. Based on the students’ performance, the teacher can reassign activities to ensure mastery of objectives. The curriculum includes the Waterford software, assessment materials, books, and videos. These are used in conjunction with take-home student books, CDs, and handouts. On-site training and online training webinars are available for initial training in addition to a detailed teacher guide. On-site teacher training could include a mid-year visit to review class progress using data from the computerized program.

Cost

For program costs, contact the Pearson representative in your area (see http://www.pearsondigital.com/waterford). Information about the cost of professional development is not available.

1 The descriptive information for this program was obtained from publicly available sources: the program’s website (http://www.waterford.org, downloaded April 18, 2007) and the research literature (Fischel, Bracken, Fuchs-Eisenberg, Spira, Katz, & Shaller, in press). The WWC requests developers to review the program description sections for accuracy from their perspective. Further verification of the accuracy of the descriptive information for this program is beyond the scope of this review.