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Does Employing the Wilsons Fundations Program Impact the Reading Growth of First Grade Students?

Oglesbee, Heidi K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1398712529

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2014, Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, Reading.
The purpose of this study was to examine how the implementation of the Wilsons Fundations Program in first grade classrooms impacted reading growth, more specifically, the growth of phonological awareness and fluency of first grade students. This study also asked whether or not the length of the intervention, Wilsons Fundations, impacts student success in the program. The Wilsons Fundations program (Wilson Language Training Corporation, 2012) is a systematic, explicit, and structured multi-sensory language program. According the Bradford (2008) using multisensory teaching methods simultaneously will help the student learn and hold onto new information better. A sample of three groups (one group for each year) of first grade students scores from three AIMSweb screeners (Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, Nonsense Word Fluency and Oral Reading Fluency) were collected and analyzed from an elementary school in northwest Ohio. There were approximately 50 students in each group. The first group received no intervention. The second group received an accelerated version of the intervention during the second semester of school. The third group received a full year of the intervention. After running statistical tests, each post-test from all three groups and all three screeners had statistically significant differences. In addition, there were also significant differences between each group. These data indicate that employing the Wilsons Fundations Program in first grade classrooms appears to impact their phonological growth, as does the length of the program intervention.
Cindy Hendricks, PhD (Committee Chair)
Penny Soboleski, PhD (Committee Member)
Mark Earley, PhD (Committee Member)
70 p.
Early Childhood Education; Education; Educational Theory; Elementary Education; Literacy; Reading Instruction
multisensory instruction; reading growth; phonological awareness; multisensory learning; Wilsons Fundations; Orton-Gillingham

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  • Oglesbee, H. K. (2014). Does Employing the Wilsons Fundations Program Impact the Reading Growth of First Grade Students? [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1398712529

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Oglesbee, Heidi. Does Employing the Wilsons Fundations Program Impact the Reading Growth of First Grade Students? 2014. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1398712529.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Oglesbee, Heidi. "Does Employing the Wilsons Fundations Program Impact the Reading Growth of First Grade Students?" Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1398712529

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