ERIC Number: EJ1458969
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jan
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
EISSN: EISSN-1936-2706
Read STOP Write: Teaching Foundational Skills in a Multicomponent Informational Reading and Writing Intervention
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v68 n4 p339-352 2025
Many adolescent readers experience difficulties comprehending informational text, which may result from underlying difficulties with foundational skills (e.g., word recognition and fluency), knowledge demands (e.g., background, text structure, and vocabulary), and/or reading motivation. Supplemental interventions for adolescents targeting only foundational skills demonstrate mixed results, but multicomponent interventions that combine multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and comprehension strategies that build word and world knowledge to support complex text reading can improve foundational skills and comprehension for students in upper-elementary and middle grades. In this article, we describe how prior research informed the design of Read STOP Write, a multicomponent intervention for students in grades 4-9. Read STOP Write integrates instruction in multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and vocabulary with comprehension instruction focused on building knowledge and using text structures to read and write about science and social studies texts. We summarize research conducted in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms and discuss implications for teachers of adolescents.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition, Reading Fluency, Reading Motivation, Reading Strategies, Decoding (Reading), Reading Programs, Program Design, Vocabulary Development, Text Structure, Adolescents
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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