Software to Teach Foundations of Reading/Writing Fluency

描述(由申请者提供)：全球化、高科技的经济对识字技能的要求越来越高，但大量美国儿童仍在努力成为合格的读者，导致医疗、失业和社会服务成本高昂。这个项目的总体目标是帮助孩子们提高阅读和写作技能。其具体目标是设计、开发、测试和评估一个低成本、以研究为基础、易于使用的教育软件程序-流利基础，供大量7-12岁的儿童使用。该软件旨在提高语音和形态的敏感性，加深对单词结构的理解，以提高阅读和写作的理解力和流利性。流利基础将通过高级解码、词法学习、拼写惯例、单词识别、新词汇以及带反馈练习阅读和写作的活动，以自己的节奏系统地引导新出现的读者。这个团队已经开发了读、写和类型学习系统(被证明可以提高一年级班级、英语学习者和高危学生的解码技能)，目前正在制定一个主要的早期阅读技能持续监测(CMERS)评估计划。第一阶段的目标是设计和制作学习四种拼写规则的活动的原型，使用原型来检查二年级和三年级的儿童如何使用这些活动，并评估学生学习这些规则的情况。可行性已经在以前的工作中得到了证明。建立这些更高级技能的基于软件的活动将帮助普通学生以及那些阅读困难的学生，以及那些将英语作为第二语言学习的学生，并可以帮助教育工作者和父母实现我们国家的愿望，即建设一个更有文化、更好就业、更健康和更有生产力的社会。

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.