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Beach, Kristen D.; Washburn, Erin K.; Gesel, Samantha A.; Williams, Paula – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
This exploratory investigation examined the transformation of a traditional summer reading intervention (SRI) to synchronous virtual format in response to school closures due to COVID-19. Goals were to adapt and describe the adaptation of the in-person intervention to the virtual environment, examine program outcomes, and understand tutor and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
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Hurry, Jane; Flouri, Eirini; Sylva, Kathy – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2018
Background: There is a well-established association between literacy difficulties and emotional and behavior disorders (EBD). However, the scarcity of experimental studies means directions of causality are not clear. Aims: This study investigates causal relationships between literacy and EBD, and implications of co-morbidity for intervention.…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Literacy, Reading Difficulties
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Peurach, Donald J.; Glazer, Joshua L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
This introduction to the special issue on Reading Recovery situates the enterprise in a broader educational reform context that has placed a priority on developing and fielding large-scale, systemic interventions that support ambitious instructional practice and student outcomes. Within this context, Reading Recovery is examined as an evolving,…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Educational Change, Intervention, Educational Improvement
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Rodgers, Emily – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
In every school district across the country, every year, initiatives are adopted with the goal of improving the literacy performance of young students, and, just as frequently, these initiatives fail or quickly become passing fads. In this article, Rodgers reviews literature related to scaling educational innovations and describes challenges and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Literacy, Reading
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D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Harmey, Sinéad J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
Reading Recovery is one of the most researched literacy programs worldwide. Although there have been at least 4 quantitative reviews of its effectiveness, none have considered all rigorous group-comparison studies from all implementing nations from the late 1970s to 2015. Using a hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) v-known analysis, we examined if…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading, Reading Programs, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Trainin, Guy; Wilson, Kathleen M.; Murphy-Yagil, Malinda; Rankin-Erickson, Joan L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2014
This study compared the impact of 2 types of small-group interventions targeting below-level 3rd-grade students. The study compared WordWork decoding and spelling instruction (Calfee, Miller, Norman, Wilson, & Trainin, 2006; Calfee & Patrick, 1995), which includes attention to articulation and metacognition, with a more traditional…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intervention, Grade 3, Elementary School Students