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“James, a second grade, could read, but it was a very difficult struggle. When he first started tutoring in Read Right, he looked at his tutor with tears in his eyes. He said, ''I really can't read!'' Thirty one hours of tutoring later, he is reading at grade level. His self-confidence has soared, and his math skills have improved. When the student was asked what he thought about Read Right, his response was, ‘I think Read Right is awesome! It really helped me with my reading and writing. We use Dibels testing. James was at 11 words per minutes when he started tutoring in Read Right and is now at 101. The end of second grade should be 90!”Find us on Facebook
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Data
Rapid Gains for Elementary Students
The average rate of advancement for 1,104 elementary students tutored in Read Right during the 2008-2009 school year was 36 hours of tutoring per grade level gained. Details are shown in the charts below.
Permanent Gains
The gains achieved in Read Right are a result of physiological changes made by remodeling the neural network that guides the process of reading. Because of this, the gains are permanent. Regression will not occur during extended vacation periods. Once the remodeling is complete, students keep advancing in their abilities to think critically about the text, which results in continuously improving scores on reading tests—even after the remediation is complete.
2008-2009 School Year Results for 61 elementary schools
The first chart below indicates that 1,104 elementary school students registered an average grade level gain of 1.1 on the Gates MacGinitie Reading Test, Comprehension sub-set in an average of 40 hours of small-group tutoring in the Read Right intervention program. The second chart displays the Normal Curve Equivalency (NCE) Gain* for the same students.
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*Interpretation of Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE) Scores:
An NCE gain of 0 means that the student held his own in the norming population—he didn’t get further behind, nor did he make any progress in closing the achievement gap. Thus, small NCE gains can be significant.
Borman, Hewes, Overman & Brown (2003) have defined a gain of 1.9 to 3.2 NCE in one school year as “meaningful.” Read Right results for combined elementary projects during 2009 reflect NCE gains that are more than three times what is considered meaningful—and they were obtained with only 40 hours of tutoring on average.
A longitudinal study of elementary students tutored in Read Right
The data below comes from a longitudinal study conducted by Union Gap School District, Union Gap, Washington. The graph shows that elementary students gained an average of 2.4 grades in reading during Read Right tutoring. Three years later, with no intervening reading intervention, they had gained an additional 3.6 years. The chart presents the data in GE, in Normal Curve Equivalencies (NCE) scores, and in National Percentile Ranking (NPR).
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