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Gallant, Patricia; Schwartz, Robert – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
Teacher educators examined three aspects of expertise in reading instruction in 15 preservice, classroom, and intervention teachers at three distinctively different points in their professional development. In one sitting, participants responded to two video clips showing the same first-grade child reading familiar text in a Reading Recovery…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intervention, Reading
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
"Fundations"[R] is a prevention and early-intervention program designed to help reduce reading and spelling failure. The program is aimed at students in grades K-3 and involves daily 30-minute lessons which focus on carefully-sequenced skills that include print knowledge, alphabet awareness, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Evidence, Standards, Prevention
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Dunn, Michael W. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
A debate exists in the research community about replacing the traditional IQ/achievement discrepancy method for learning disability identification with a "response-to-intervention model". This new assessment paradigm uses a student's level of improvement with small-group or individual programming to determine a possible need for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Reading Failure, Disability Identification
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Johnson, Evelyn S.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Catts, Hugh W. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
Screening for early reading problems is a critical step in early intervention and prevention of later reading difficulties. Evaluative frameworks for determining the utility of a screening process are presented in the literature but have not been applied to many screening measures currently in use in numerous schools across the nation. In this…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Test Validity, Reading Difficulties, Disability Identification
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Pullen, Paige C.; Tuckwiller, Elizabeth D.; Konold, Timothy R.; Maynard, Katrina L.; Coyne, Michael D. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
Vocabulary knowledge at school entry is a robust predictor of later reading achievement. Many children begin formal reading instruction at a significant disadvantage due to low levels of vocabulary. Until recently, relatively few research studies examined the efficacy of vocabulary interventions for children in the early primary grades (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Instructional Design, Intervention, Reading Failure
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Smith, Susan Lambrecht; Scott, Kathleen A.; Roberts, Jenny; Locke, John L. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
The importance of early identification of children at risk for reading failure is clearly established in the literature. The purpose of this longitudinal retrospective study was to further define the relationship between the development of prereading skills and later reading outcome in two groups of children; a group of reading-disabled children…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2009
"Reading Recovery"[R] is a short-term tutoring intervention designed to serve the lowest-achieving (bottom 20%) first-grade students. The goals of "Reading Recovery"[R] include: promoting literacy skills; reducing the number of first-grade students who are struggling to read; and preventing long-term reading difficulties. The…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Failure, Second Language Learning
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Hines, Sara J.; Speece, Deborah L.; Walker, Caroline Y.; DaDeppo, Lisa M. W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
We conducted two case studies to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized remedial reading instruction linked to direct measures of student learning and transfer. The participants were two first grade children at serious risk of reading failure. The instruction targeted decoding of one syllable short vowel words and first emphasized…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Remedial Reading, Phonemes, Reading Failure
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Patricia R. Kelly; Francisco-Xavier Gomez-Bellenge; Jing Chen; Melissa M. Schulz – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
This study investigated the efficacy of Reading Recovery[R] (RR) with first grade English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools by examining the literacy outcomes of ELLs compared with their native English-speaking (NES) peers, who were also enrolled in RR. We also explored how ELLs' fall oral English proficiency levels were related to their…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Phonemics, Bilingual Education, Reading Failure
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Musti-Rao, Shobana; Cartledge, Gwendolyn – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2007
This study investigated the effects of a supplemental early reading intervention program on the phonemic awareness and alphabetic principle skills of students identified as at risk for reading failure. Seven kindergarten students and one first-grade student received 20 min of supplemental reading instruction 3 days a week for 16, 12, and 8 weeks.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Early Reading, Phonemics
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Reading Recovery"[R] is a short-term tutoring intervention program intended to serve the lowest achieving (bottom 20%) first-grade students. Students are chosen for "Reading Recovery"[R] by school staff, and selection is based on prior reading achievement, diagnostic testing (the Clay Observation Survey of Early Literacy…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Grade 1, Reading Research, Literacy Education
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Fudge, Daniel L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2006
The Predictive Reading Profile (PRP) is an individual or group-administered instrument designed to examine precursors to reading difficulties by identifying children at risk for reading failure in later grades and special instructional needs for children in late kindergarten and first grade. The purpose of the PRP "is to develop a profile of a…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Test Reviews