Accelerating Rural Students’ Growth with the Targeted Reading Intervention A Dual-Level Intervention for Rural K-1 Struggling Learners and their Teachers Steve Amendum Marnie Ginsberg Lynne Vernon-Feagans NREA Research Symposium, 2007 Targeting instructional match in every interaction…
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Accelerating Rural Students’ Growth with the Targeted Reading InterventionA Dual-Level Intervention for Rural K-1 Struggling Learners and their Teachers
Steve AmendumMarnie GinsbergLynne Vernon-FeagansNREA Research Symposium, 2007
Targeting instructional match in every interaction…
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to improve the teaching strategies of rural kindergarten and first grade teachers in literacy, with a specific focus on strategies that are effective with struggling readers who do not make reading gains using traditional reading instruction.
Who are we?
• Research project• Part of the National Research
Center on Rural Education Support– www.nrcres.org
• Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• “the most challenging student…that I had in all my years of teaching”
• “I did not know at what moment when she came in the classroom what that day was going to be like. And if she was just going to snap and …lose it – what was she going to do?”
How did theory and research inform the TRI design?
Why focus on rural kindergarten and first grade teachers?
• First years of school– (Alexander& Entwisle, 1992; Juel, 1988; Vernon-Feagans,
Odom, Pancsofar & Kainz, in press; Vernon-Feagans, Gallagher & Kainz, in press)