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Peer reviewedCenter, Yola; Freeman, Louella; Robertson, Gregory – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
An evaluation of Schoolwide Early Language and Literacy (SWELL) was undertaken in New South Wales, Australia, using a sample of 366 disadvantaged kindergarten students. Participants outperformed controls on pseudo-word decoding and reading connected text at the end of kindergarten, and on invented spelling and reading measures midway through first…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Disadvantaged Youth, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries
