Sheila
Moderator
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance within the Institute of Education Sciences
The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance within the Institute of Education Sciences has released two new What Works Clearinghouse (http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/) intervention reports in the Beginning Reading topic area. The first report looks at Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing (LiPS), a program designed to teach students skills to decode words and to identify individual sounds and blends in words. The program uses activities to engage students in discovering the lip, tongue, and mouth actions needed to produce specific sounds and identify and order the sounds into words. This report has been updated to include reviews of 12 studies that have been released since 2005.
To view, download, and print the intervention report as a PDF file, please visit: https://web.archive.org/web/20090414130424/http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/wwc_lindamood_121608.pdf
The second intervention report is on Houghton Mifflin: Invitations to Literacy program, an integrated K-8 reading and language arts program that is structured around themes. The philosophy behind the program is that literacy instruction should stimulate, teach, and extend the communication and thinking skills that will allow students to become effective readers, writers, communicators, and lifelong learners.