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Grable, Charles R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Response to Intervention (RTI) is defined by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) as the practice of providing high-quality instruction and intervention matched to student needs and using learning rate over time and level of performance to make important educational decisions (2007). Both IDEA 2004 and the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Response to Intervention, Elementary School Students, Reading Tests
Gwilliam, Marilyn; Limbrick, Libby – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2016
The school in which this research project took place, Papatoetoe Central, was concerned about research evidence that indicated students' reading achievement dropped after long summer breaks. This drop in achievement, known as "the summer effect", has been reported in schools in New Zealand and internationally (Alexander, Entwisle, &…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Vacations, Reading Achievement
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Piazza, Susan V.; Duncan, Lonnie E. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2012
Parental incarceration, poverty, urban violence, and drug use can be underlying factors of academic achievement gaps between Black urban males and their counterparts. These risk factors have the potential to position low-income urban students as struggling readers. Two qualitative case studies obtained from a larger mixed methods study illustrate…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Urban Schools, Reading Achievement, After School Programs
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Perkins, J. Helen; Cooter, Kathleen – Reading Horizons, 2013
In order to systemically improve student achievement in elementary literacy, a large urban school district partnered with a local university to develop a model for high-quality professional development that hopefully would result in long-term changes in teachers' literacy instructional/practices. Schools were selected based on their Adequate…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Literacy, Literacy Education, Professional Development
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Peterson, James L.; Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.; Martella, Ronald C. – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2008
Although "Corrective Reading Decoding" has been validated as effective over a wide range of students, there is a lack of information on its effectiveness with older students having intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of "Corrective Reading…
Descriptors: Corrective Reading, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
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Sinatra, Richard – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2004
This report describes the organizational structure, a literacy approach called the 6Rs, and theme-related components that occurred over three summers at CampUs. Thousands of inner-city children from housing development sites located in New York City's five boroughs were bused to a metropolitan university. During 10-day cycles, children read trade…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Literacy