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"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
Direct linkBriesch, Amy M.; Hemphill, Elizabeth M.; Volpe, Robert J.; Daniels, Brian – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
Although there is much research to support the effectiveness of classwide interventions aimed at improving student engagement, there is also a great deal of variability in terms of how response to group-level intervention has been measured. The unfortunate consequence of this procedural variability is that it is difficult to determine whether…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Observation
Pappas, Danielle N.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Skinner, Amy L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
An across-groups (classrooms), multiple-baseline design was used to investigate the effects of an interdependent group-oriented contingency on the Accelerated Reader (AR) performance of fourth-grade students. A total of 32 students in three classes participated. Before the study began, an independent group-oriented reward program was being applied…
Descriptors: Tests, Ability Grouping, Group Activities, Reading Programs
Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Lapp, Diane – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2011
In this case study, we focus on 2 variables often neglected in conversations about closing the achievement gap. Most recommendations for closing the achievement gap center on extending learning time, including afterschool programs, extended year programs, and supplemental instruction. Our school focused on attendance and student engagement in our…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Parent Participation
Williamson, Brenda D.; Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.; Lo, Ya-yu – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
Group contingencies have the advantages of encouraging individual students to collectively feel responsible for appropriate and inappropriate classroom behaviors and have shown effectiveness in improving students' behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a random dependent group contingency on the on-task behaviors of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Behavior, Disabilities, Contingency Management
Thurston, A.; Christie, D.; Howe, C. J.; Tolmie, A.; Topping, K. J. – Journal of In-service Education, 2008
The present study investigated the effects of a continuing professional development (CPD) initiative that provided collaborative group work skills training for primary school teachers. The study collected data from 24 primary school classrooms in different schools in a variety of urban and rural settings. The sample was composed of 332 pupils,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
Hollweg, Karen S. – 1997
The Volunteer-led Investigations of Neighborhood Ecology, or VINE Program, gives children opportunities to discover and investigate the plants, animals, and ecological relationships that exist right in their own neighborhoods through hands-on natural science investigations. It was established by Denver Audubon Society members as an urban education…
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
