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Cooke, Nancy L.; Kretlow, Allison G.; Helf, Shawnna – Preventing School Failure, 2010
Substantial research supports the need for early intervention efforts for students at risk for failure. Despite the empirically documented importance of early, explicit reading intervention for students who enter school without critical prereading skills, many kindergarten programs delay intensive reading instruction until later in the year.…
Descriptors: Reading Readiness, Early Intervention, Early Reading, At Risk Students
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2009
"Curiosity Corner" is an early childhood curriculum emphasizing children's language and literacy skills. It comprises two sets of 38 weekly thematic units--one for three-year-olds and one for four-year-olds. Program staff conduct daily lessons using sequential daily activities. One study of "Curiosity Corner" meets the What…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Intervention, Educational Research, Early Reading
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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
"Curiosity Corner" is a comprehensive early childhood curriculum designed to help children at risk of school failure because of poverty. The program offers children experiences that develop the attitudes, skills, and knowledge necessary for later school success with a special emphasis on children's language and literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Personality Traits, Intervention, Oral Language
Powers, Stephen; Price-Johnson, Connie – Online Submission, 2006
Background: The Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), a technology-based program for early elementary grades, was provided through Arizona all day kindergarten funds to kindergarten students in 15 Title I elementary schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in the 2005-06 school year. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests