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Meeting Societies' Increased Expectations through Responsive Instruction: The Power and Potential of Systemwide Approaches
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Harn, Beth A.; Chard, David J.; Kame'enui, Edward J. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
With education's ever-changing and increasing expectations, including response-to-intervention, schools are required to make significant changes in practice to meet the needs of all students. The effectiveness and efficiencies garnered in implementing prevention-oriented, schoolwide approaches to instructional delivery provide the necessary…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Expectation
An Early Intervention Supporting the Literacy Learning of Children Experiencing Substantial Difficulty.
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Jackson, Jane B.; Paratore, Jeanne R.; Chard, David J.; Garnick, Sheila – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1999
A study examined the degree to which eight teachers would faithfully implement an early literacy intervention plan. Teachers implemented the intervention with a high degree of fidelity and benefited from the community approach to intervention for struggling readers. Most children made substantial gains in phonemic blending and segmenting…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Faculty
Fluency and Comprehension Interventions for Third-Grade Students.
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Vaughn, Sharon; Chard, David J.; Bryant, Diane Pedrotty; Coleman, Maggie; Tyler, Brenda-Jean; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia; Kouzekanani, Kamiar – Remedial and Special Education, 2000
Eight classrooms of third graders (n=111) and their teachers were provided with two intervention strategies, partner reading intervention designed to enhance fluency, or collaborative strategic reading, designed to enhance comprehension. Over time, there were statistically significant effects for rate of reading for both interventions for low- to…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching, Primary Education
Using Readers Theatre To Foster Fluency in Struggling Readers: A Twist on the Repeated Reading Strategy.
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Tyler, Brenda-Jean; Chard, David J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Discusses reading fluency, the role of fluency in reading, and how fluency works. Suggests students' fluency and reading comprehension can be boosted by combining the technique of repeated reading and Readers Theatre--the combination is an effective and viable means of motivating children to read a text. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Readers Theater, Reading Comprehension