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LANGUAGE! Focus on English Learning Overview
www.sopriswest.com/language
District 2
At-Risk Students
In a middle school pilot implementation
of LANGUAGE! involving at-risk special
education students from diverse
socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds,
all students, on average, achieved a
6-point national percentile gain from
TOSWRF pretest to posttest.
TOSWRF Growth
Grade 68 Students Enrolled in LANGUAGE!*
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
Non-White
(n=30)
Free/Reduced Lunch
(n=38)
All Students
(n=47)
National P
ercentile R
ank
3%
9%
3%
9%
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
3%
10%
Key Details
Total Participants:134
Instructional Period:
20052006schoolyear
Grade Levels:68
Demographics:
·87%Non-whiteethnic
·23%Englishlanguagelearner
(ELL)
·81%Free/ReducedLunch
(FRL)
·100%ofstudentsindata
sample received special
education services
·79%ofstudentshadeither
a learning disability or a
speech-language disorder
Measures:
·TestofSilentWordReading
Fluency(TOSWRF)
·ScholasticTMReading
Inventory(SRI)
·ColoradoStudentAssessment
Program(CSAP),Reading
·ColoradoStudentAssessment
Program(CSAP),Writing
* Sample was reduced due to incomplete data.