Apparently, teachers are tolerant of these shortened letters, rating them as acceptable, whereas an overlay procedure is obliged to score them as unacceptable. Using teacher ratings, the relationship was not as clear-cut, and the greatest measurement discrepancy was found for the blank-space condition in which the letters, when written, were reduced in size. With a highly objective overlay (template) procedure, the legibility scores of preschoolers and second graders improved as letter prompting increased. Since the 1960s, SRA has been the publisher of Direct Instruction programs, also known as DISTAR (Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading). Visit Worksheets Unlimited for worksheets that go along with each lesson.

The program takes 20 minutes a day and after 100 lessons your child will be reading on a 2nd grade level. This program can work well with children as young as 3. Whether letter prompting affected legibility depended upon the measurement of legibility. This book is based on the proven SRA DISTAR Reading Program. Worksheets contained line spacings, as well as: (a) strongly prompted traced letters (b) two types of intermediate prompts cuing the letter's starting position and (c) a minimally prompted blank space. Shortly after the conclusion of Project Follow Through, Engelmann revised his DISTAR program and published it with SRA/McGraw Hill as Reading Mastery. Because the prompts for manuscript letter-formation found on handwriting worksheets are considered critical for facilitating legibility and for building independent writing skills, the influence of printed writing prompts on legibility was studied in a within-subjects design.

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