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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

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in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text. ” A majority of the materials were rated 0 or 1 on a 0-3 quality scale. “This is a huge phenomenon that is woefully understudied. .”

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Utah State Board of Education Approves Lexia Reading Core5 as K–3 Reading Improvement Program

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When students met EISP’s highest usage requirements during the 2016-2017 school year, DIBELS Next growth for kindergartners tripled, first graders nearly tripled, second graders doubled, and third graders had significant gains compared to their respective control groups,” said Gaehde.

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Consistent Use of Lexia Reading Core5 Leads to Surge in Charter Schools USA Elementary Students Literacy Gains

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Performance was captured with RIT (Rasch unIT) scores, which measure student achievement on an equal-interval scale across all grades, and researchers compared students’ fall and spring levels in Core5 to their fall 2016 and spring 2017 MAP RIT scores. “We