WWC Summary of Evidence for this Intervention
LANGUAGE!®
LANGUAGE!® is a language arts intervention designed for struggling learners in grades 3–12 who score below the 40th percentile on standardized literacy tests. The curriculum integrates English literacy acquisition skills into a six-step lesson format. During a daily lesson, students work on phonemic awareness and phonics (word decoding), word recognition and spelling (word encoding), vocabulary and morphology (word meaning), grammar and usage (understanding the form and function of words in context), listening and reading comprehension, and speaking and writing.
February 2013
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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Comprehension
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1 study meets standards
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9-10 |
632
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Zmach, C. C., Chan, T., Salinger, T., Chinen, M. H., Tanenbaum, C. T., & Taylor, T. S. (2009)
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9-10 |
632 |
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Reading Fluency
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1 study meets standards
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9-10 |
640
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Zmach, C. C., Chan, T., Salinger, T., Chinen, M. H., Tanenbaum, C. T., & Taylor, T. S. (2009)
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9-10 |
640 |
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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.