Kindergartners who got a literacy curriculum grounded in science topics had better reading comprehension than peers who got the standard approach focusing on general comprehension skills, according to new research.
It can be hard to gather evidence on the effects of knowledge-building. It may take years for students to acquire enough general academic knowledge and vocabulary to do well on standardized tests, where the reading passages rarely relate to topics covered in the curriculum. But new data is showing that content-focused literacy curricula can have a significant positive impact on kindergartners’ comprehension after only a year or less.
The children who got ARC Core did significantly better on a standardized test of reading comprehension—0.17 of a standard deviation, in research-speak. That may not sound like much, but it’s even larger than the effects found by the Florida researchers—0.06 and 0.12—andresults. According to the Florida study, “large-scale randomized controlled trials typically demonstrate an average effect size of 0.01 on kindergarten outcomes and 0.01 on language outcomes across grades.
Like other teachers who have switched to knowledge-building curricula, those using ARC Core—most of them veterans—were surprised at what their students proved capable of doing. “In past years, I would not have [seen] more than half my room reading,” one teacher told researchers. “This year, it’s 100% reading, down to my lowest reader.
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