WWC Summary of Evidence for this Intervention
Sound Partners
Sound Partners is a phonics-based tutoring program that provides supplemental reading instruction to elementary school students grades K–3 with below-average reading skills. The program is designed for use by tutors with minimal training and experience. Instruction emphasizes letter–sound correspondences, phoneme blending, decoding and encoding phonetically regular words, and reading irregular high-frequency words. It includes oral reading to practice applying phonics skills in text. The program consists of a set of scripted lessons in alphabetic and phonics skills and uses Bob Books beginning reading series as one of the primary texts for oral reading practice. The tutoring can be provided as a pull-out or after-school program or by parents who homeschool their children.
September 2010
Outcome domain
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Effectiveness rating
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Studies meeting standards
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Grades examined
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Students
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Improvement index
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Alphabetics
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7 studies meet standards
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K-1 |
442
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Jenkins, J. R., Peyton, J. A., Sanders, E. A., & Vadasy, P. F. (2004)
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1 |
99 |
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Mooney, P. J. (2003)
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1 |
47 |
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Antil, Lawrence R.; Wayne, Susan K.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. (1997)
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1 |
40 |
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pool, Kathleen. (2000)
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1 |
46 |
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A. (2008)
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K |
86 |
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A. (2005)
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1 |
57 |
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A. (2006)
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K |
67 |
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Comprehension
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4 studies meet standards
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K-1 |
309
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|
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Jenkins, J. R., Peyton, J. A., Sanders, E. A., & Vadasy, P. F. (2004)
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1 |
99 |
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|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A. (2008)
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K |
86 |
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|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A. (2005)
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1 |
57 |
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|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A. (2006)
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K |
67 |
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Reading achievement
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1 study meets standards
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1 |
47
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-- |
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Mooney, P. J. (2003)
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1 |
47 |
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Reading Fluency
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7 studies meet standards
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K-1 |
442
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|
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Jenkins, J. R., Peyton, J. A., Sanders, E. A., & Vadasy, P. F. (2004)
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1 |
99 |
|
|
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Mooney, P. J. (2003)
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1 |
47 |
|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Antil, Lawrence R.; Wayne, Susan K.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. (1997)
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1 |
40 |
|
|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pool, Kathleen. (2000)
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1 |
46 |
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|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A. (2008)
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K |
86 |
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|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A. (2005)
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1 |
57 |
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|
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A. (2006)
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K |
67 |
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A group of closely related outcomes.
The number of studies that met WWC design standards and provide evidence of effectiveness. Selecting an item below will display all studies that met WWC design studies in the domain. Selecting a study citation will take you to more information on that study and its findings.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for study rating.
Grades of the students examined in the studies that met WWC design standards, which may not reflect the full range of grades for which the intervention may be used.
The number of students included in the studies that met WWC design standards.
The sample size for the studies that met WWC design standards.
An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for improvement index.
The indicator represents the highest level of similarity found between your students and each of the high-quality studies of the intervention. Three filled in ovals indicates that at least one study that met standards was conducted on students very similar to yours. Clicking on the indicator for a study will provide information on the similarity for each of the characteristics you selected.