Search results for author:"Erin Comaskey"
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ABRACADABRA in the hands of teachers: The effectiveness of a web-based literacy intervention in grade 1 language arts programs
Robert S. Savage; Ozlem Erten; Philip Abrami; Geoffrey Hipps; Erin Comaskey; Dea van Lierop
Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 2 (September 2010) pp. 911–922
This study explored how teacher variations in use of a web-technology of known effectiveness, affected growth in literacy. Teachers used ABRACADACABRA (ABRA) (http://grover.concordia.ca/abra/version1/abracadabra.html), in Grade 1 Language Arts...
Language: English
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A kindergarten intervention study comparing rime and phoneme based programs and their effects on early literacy through computer literacy software: ABRACADABRA
Erin M. Comaskey
(2007) pp. 1–74
This study investigates the use of a new literacy software ABRACADABRA with pre-reading kindergarten students. The participants ( n =27) from one school were assigned randomly to one intervention group (rime or phoneme) and (
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A Randomised Efficacy Study of Web-Based Synthetic and Analytic Programmes among Disadvantaged Urban Kindergarten Children
Erin M. Comaskey; Robert S. Savage; Philip Abrami
Journal of Research in Reading Vol. 32, No. 1 (February 2009) pp. 92–108
This study explores whether two computer-based literacy interventions--a "synthetic phonics" and an "analytic phonics" approach produce qualitatively distinct effects on the early phonological abilities and reading skills of disadvantaged urban...