Focused Reading Instruction and Student Achievement Presentation at CEC Conference Boston – April 5, 2008 Dr. Richard Evans, PhD [email protected]Taryn Goodwin MEd [email protected]Allison Moriarty MEd [email protected]Lauren Martina MEd [email protected]Molly-Armine Manwaring [email protected]James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807
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Focused Reading Instruction and Student Achievement
Presentation at CEC ConferenceBoston – April 5, 2008
• Evaluated the effectiveness of intensive remedial reading tutoring for students with disabilities or high-risk of reading failure in a rural area of Virginia. The study explored focused reading skills instruction on struggling readers to identify instructional practices that might be used in a Response to Instruction (RtI) school model for elementary students with and without emotional and behavioral disorders.
Exploring outcomes of focused reading instruction
• Pilot study for potential RtI strategy
• subjects (individuals) in third and fourth grade in a rural elementary school
• Outcomes based on student achievement in reading
• Outcomes based on change between pre-test and post-test data
Changing the Way We Educate Struggling Students
• Catch them before they fall (fail) • The majority of sped students have reading
problems• Reading is a basic building block of education • Research suggests all but a few children can be
taught reading • Early intervention catalyst for change • NCLB Act stresses funding of successful public
education instead of continuing to fund a failing system
Research Supports• To be good readers, children must possess:
– Phonemic awareness -Chard & Dickson, 1999
– Phonics skills - National Reading Panel, 2000; Vaughn et al., 1998