WWC Summary of Evidence for this Intervention
SpellRead
SpellRead™ (formerly known as SpellRead Phonological Auditory Training®) is a literacy program for struggling readers in grade 2 or above, including special education students, English language learners, and students more than 2 years below grade level in reading. SpellRead integrates the auditory and visual aspects of the reading process and emphasizes specific skill mastery through systematic and explicit instruction. Students are taught to recognize and manipulate English sounds; to practice, apply, and transfer their skills using texts at their reading level; and to write about their reading.
July 2007
As of July 2007, no studies of SpellRead were found that fell within the
scope of the Beginning Reading review protocol and met WWC evidence standards.
Therefore, the WWC is unable to draw any research based conclusions
about the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of SpellRead to improve outcomes in this area.
January 2013
Outcome
domain
|
Effectiveness
rating
|
Studies meeting standards
|
Grades
examined
|
Students
|
Improvement
index
|
|
Alphabetics
|
|
2 studies meet standards
|
5-6 |
137
|
|
|
|
Rashotte, C. A., MacPhee, K., & Torgesen, J. K. (2001)
|
5-6 |
33 |
|
|
|
Torgesen, Joseph; Myers, David; Schirm, Allen; Stuart, Elizabeth; Vartivarian, Sonya; Mansfield, Wendy; Stancavage, Fran; Durno, Donna; Javorsky, Rosanne; Haan, Cinthia. (2006)
|
5 |
104 |
|
|
Comprehension
|
|
2 studies meet standards
|
5-6 |
137
|
|
|
|
Rashotte, C. A., MacPhee, K., & Torgesen, J. K. (2001)
|
5-6 |
33 |
|
|
|
Torgesen, Joseph; Myers, David; Schirm, Allen; Stuart, Elizabeth; Vartivarian, Sonya; Mansfield, Wendy; Stancavage, Fran; Durno, Donna; Javorsky, Rosanne; Haan, Cinthia. (2006)
|
5 |
104 |
|
|
Reading Fluency
|
|
2 studies meet standards
|
5-6 |
137
|
|
|
|
Rashotte, C. A., MacPhee, K., & Torgesen, J. K. (2001)
|
5-6 |
33 |
|
|
|
Torgesen, Joseph; Myers, David; Schirm, Allen; Stuart, Elizabeth; Vartivarian, Sonya; Mansfield, Wendy; Stancavage, Fran; Durno, Donna; Javorsky, Rosanne; Haan, Cinthia. (2006)
|
5 |
104 |
|
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.
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