Software to Teach Foundations of Reading/Writing Fluency

描述（由申请人提供）：一个全球性的，高度技术化的经济需要越来越高的识字技能，但大量的美国儿童继续努力成为合格的读者，导致医疗，失业和社会服务的高成本。这个项目的主要目标是帮助孩子们提高阅读和写作技能。具体目标是设计，开发，测试和评估一个低成本，基于研究，易于使用的教育软件程序，流利基础，供大量7-12岁的奥尔兹使用。该软件旨在提高语音和形态的敏感性，并发展一个更深入的理解单词结构，以提高理解和流畅的阅读和写作。流利基础将通过高级解码，形态学单词研究，拼写惯例，单词识别，新词汇以及练习阅读和写作反馈的活动，系统地引导新兴读者按照自己的节奏。该团队已经开发了读、写和打字学习系统（显示可提高一年级学生、英语学习者和高危学生的解码技能），目前正在开发一个主要的早期阅读技能持续监测评估项目（CMERS）。第一阶段的目标是设计和原型活动学习四个拼写规则，使用原型来检查二年级和三年级的孩子如何使用这些活动，并评估学生如何学习规则。在以前的工作中已经证明了可行性。以软件为基础的活动，以建立这些更先进的技能，将有助于普通学生以及那些努力阅读，和那些学习英语作为第二语言，并可以帮助教育工作者和家长实现我们的国家的愿望，对一个更有文化，更好地就业，更健康，更有成效的社会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A global, highly technical economy requires increasingly higher literacy skills, yet large numbers of American children continue to struggle to become competent readers, resulting in high costs for health, unemployment and social services. The broad goal of this project is to help children improve reading and writing skills. The specific aims are to design, develop, test, and evaluate a low-cost, research-based, easy-to-use educational software program, Fluency Foundations, for use by large numbers of 7-12 year olds. This software is designed to improve phonological and morphological sensitivity, and develop a deeper understanding of word structure in order to increase comprehension and fluency in reading and writing. Fluency Foundations will lead emergent readers at their own pace systematically through advanced decoding, morphological word study, spelling conventions, word identification, new vocabulary, and activities that practice reading and writing with feedback. This team has produced the Read, Write & Type Learning System, (shown to improve decoding skills in first grade classes, English language learners, and at-risk students) and is currently 3roducing a major assessment program for Continuous Monitoring of Early Reading Skills (CMERS). Phase I aims are to design and prototype activities for learning four spelling rules, use the prototype to examine how second and third grade children use these activities, and evaluate how well students learn the rules. Feasibility has been shown in previous work. Software-based activities to build these more advanced skills will assist regular students as well as those struggling to read, and those learning English as a second language, and can help educators and parents fulfill our national aspirations toward a more literate, better employed, healthier, and more productive society.