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Lauritzen, Jacob Dee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Native American secondary students have consistently scored lower in reading than other racial groups. Research has suggested that increasing student reading engagement and using a culturally-responsive pedagogy may help Native American students to improve reading levels. The problem addressed by this study is the need to identify best practices…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, American Indian Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
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Helf, Shawnna; Cooke, Nancy L. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
The existence of elementary reading specialists in schools has increased, and their role in improving schoolwide efforts for prevention and intervention of reading risk has received increased emphasis. The purpose of this article is to describe the components of a multitier schoolwide reading model in the early grades in which the reading…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Specialists, Models, Reading Strategies
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King, Seth A.; Lemons, Christopher J.; Hill, David R. – NASSP Bulletin, 2012
Secondary school administrators are increasingly finding themselves in the position of implementing Response to Intervention (RTI). This system of providing progressively intensive levels of intervention for the purposes of preventing academic failure and identifying children with learning disability may be useful at the secondary level. However,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Academic Failure, Response to Intervention
Mize, Gregory K. – 1977
The major purpose of this study was to assess the effect of increased parental involvement in an intervention program. The program was structured to follow a prescribed mode of parent-child activities and parent-teacher communications and activities all having reference to the child's educational experiences, particularly those involving reading.…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship, Intervention
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1973
This report describes an early intervention program designed to prevent first grade failure. It includes an explanation of the program's objectives, activities, evaluation, and findings; short summaries of the program's background, content, cost effectiveness analysis, and evaluation procedures; and the conclusions and recommendations of a…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
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Cuckle, Pat; Shorrocks-Taylor, Diane – Journal of In-service Education, 2005
An intervention is described which had the twofold aims of increasing the literacy teaching skills of teachers and raising the achievement in Key Stage 1 national tests of selected groups of Year 2 children. The theoretical framework for the intervention is discussed. The training course for and delivery and success of the intervention are…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Objectives, Teaching Skills, National Competency Tests