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D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Rodgers, Emily; Mauck, Susan – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
The authors used nationally based, random sample data from three different years (2009-2010, 2011-2012, and 2014-2015) for nearly 20,000 first-grade students (n = 9,760, 3,657, and 3,121, respectively) to examine long-reported inadequacies of a commonly used early literacy assessment tool, the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Emergent Literacy, Student Evaluation
Voyles, Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Reading Recovery (RR) is an early intervention program that addresses the needs of struggling readers in 1st grade. Numerous studies support the positive effect RR has with struggling readers, but research is limited on the effects of RR with English language learners (ELLs). The purpose of this study examined the relationship between oral…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading, Oral Language, Reading Failure
Harley, Anne J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact and sustainability of successfully discontinued first grade Reading Recovery students as compared to non-Reading Recovery students in reading achievement measures as third graders. Schools are facing the unprecedented challenge to ensure reading success for all students by the end of second…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement
Janet Bufalino; Chuang Wang; Francisco X. Gomez-Bellenge; Garreth Zalud – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2010
This paper summarizes a study that was conducted on data from children who received a one-on-one intervention called Reading Recovery[R] during the first half of their first-grade year in school. The purpose was to investigate the relationship between accelerated progress children made during and after receiving a Reading Recovery intervention,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Remedial Reading, Reading Failure, Emergent Literacy
Nagy, Kerri Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Given expectations for higher standards teachers must find ways to improve family involvement and build a community atmosphere within the classroom. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the implementation of a family involvement program into a first grade classroom. Epstein's six types of parent involvement formed the theoretical…
Descriptors: Reading Failure, Parent Participation, Grade 1, Family Involvement
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the reading attitude of struggling elementary students at risk for reading failure. Twenty-nine first-grade and 32 second-grade struggling readers were given the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990). First-grade struggling readers favored more academic reading activities while second-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Weaver, Wendy Smyth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of a Response to Intervention framework had a positive impact on student reading achievement in urban elementary schools. This was a causal-comparative study that examined the reading performance of a sample of kindergarten through grade three students who experienced the Response to…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Reading Achievement, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students
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McIntyre, Laureen; Protz, Susan; McQuarrie, Lynn – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine if phonemic awareness skills improved for first grade students classified as at-risk whose teachers used the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program (LiPS; Lindamood & Lindamood, 1998). Students' scores on a Kindergarten screening tool (Learning Disabilities Working Committee-LDWC, 2005) were compared to…
Descriptors: Phonemics, Learning Disabilities, Reading Failure, Phonemic Awareness
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Ruhe, Valerie; Paula, Moore – ERS Spectrum, 2005
Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention for first-grade children with reading and writing difficulties. This longitudinal study investigated the performance of a cohort of 1998 Reading Recovery students on later literacy achievement as measured by the 2001 Grade 4 Maine Educational Assessment (MEA). The results showed that the average MEA…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Grade 4