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2. DIBELS - Wikipedia

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   DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a series of short tests designed to evaluate key literacy skills among students in kindergarten through 8th grade, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. The theory behind DIBELS is that giving students a number of quick tests, will ...

3. Project STAR - Wikipedia

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   Project STAR. Project STAR (Steps to Achieving Resilience) was three-year, federally funded research project which consisted of an intervention with preschoolers enrolled in the Head Start program in Lane County, Oregon, United States. The project was conducted from 1999 to 2003 by the Early Childhood Research Unit of the University of Oregon ...

4. Curriculum-based measurement - Wikipedia

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   CBM began in the mid-1970s with research headed by Stan Deno at the University of Minnesota. [1] Over the course of 10 years, this work led to the establishment of measurement systems in reading, writing, and spelling that were: (a) easy to construct, (b) brief in administration and scoring, (c) had technical adequacy (reliability and various types of validity evidence for use in making ...

5. How to Help a Child with Dyslexia at Home: Ideas, Resources

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   Improving reading skills in children with dyslexia: Efficacy studies on a newly proposed remedial intervention-repeated reading with vocal music masking (RVM). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ...

6. What Are the Best At-Home Activities for Dementia Patients?

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   Home activities for dementia that may stimulate the brain include: playing games. doing puzzles. reading and looking at books or magazines. writing. learning a new skill, like knitting. engaging ...

7. Reading Books: Benefits for Mind and Body - WebMD

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   Levels of stress, depression, and anxiety are especially high in today’s hectic world. It can be hard to find time for self-care and especially hard to find time for leisure activities like reading.