Decoding & Comprehension

Comprehension Difficulties, Reading Difficulties

On average, students who received Seeing Stars® combined with Visualizing and Verbalizing® instruction achieved significant improvements in reading and comprehension. They made large (significant) standard score changes on all measures. Although the large average standard score gain on the Word Recognition measure is notable, it’s equally if not more important to note the large average standard score gains in Paragraph Reading Accuracy and Comprehension.

Results of Students Who Received Decoding & Comprehension Instruction

Year: 2008-2018

Number of Students: 5,310

Average Age: 11.2

Average Hours of Instruction: 124.8

Lindamood-Bell Instruction Implemented: Seeing Stars and Visualizing and Verbalizing