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Intervention Review: Reading in k-2

Intervention Review: Reading in k-2. Rachel German Mar. 13, 2013. Overview of Interventions. Extensive amount of empirically-supported interventions Reading Early intervention 4 major focus areas Alphabetics Reading achievement Reading comprehension Reading fluency.

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Intervention Review: Reading in k-2

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  1. Intervention Review:Reading in k-2 Rachel German Mar. 13, 2013

  2. Overview of Interventions • Extensive amount of empirically-supported interventions • Reading • Early intervention • 4 major focus areas • Alphabetics • Reading achievement • Reading comprehension • Reading fluency (US Department of Education, n.d.)

  3. Overview of Interventions • Effective interventions don’t have to be expensive • Gains can be seen from early interventions through at least 2nd grade • 4 essential elements of effective early interventions: • Phonological awareness, decoding, & word study • Guided and independent reading • Writing exercises • Practicing comprehension strategies during reading • Group size and frequency are important considerations (Scammacca et al., 2007)

  4. Sound Partners: Overview • Phonics-based early reading for K-2 • Program materials include handbooks, lessons, books, sound cards, manuals, etc. • $89.95 for Kindergarten • $254.95 for First/Second Grade • One-on-one tutoring session • Theories: • Phonics-based • Early intervention • Individualized instruction • Combination of individual oral reading and specific instruction on target areas of need (Cambium Learning Store, 2013a)

  5. Sound Partners: Characteristics of Target Group • High-need • Significantly struggling in reading • Needs more structured/individualized attention • Maybe with ADHD

  6. Sound Partners: Implementation • 30-minute sessions 4x per week • Sessions consist of 4-8 short activities • Change throughout intervention • Instruction includes: • Letter-sound correspondences • Phoneme blending • Decoding and encoding phonetically regular words • Reading irregular high-frequency words • Last 15 minutes per session: oral reading practice • Progress Monitoring: • Tests given every 10 lessons (What Works Clearinghouse, 2010, p. 2)

  7. Sound Partnersand RTI • Individualized • Intensive • Single tutor • 30 minute sessions 4x per week • Tier II or Tier III • Depending on school system structure

  8. Sound partners: Empirical Support • Review of 7 studies • 442 students • Grades K-1 (What Works Clearinghouse, 2010)

  9. ClassWide peer tutoring: Overview • Peer-tutoring program for grades 1-8 • Designed for any content area • Sold by Cambium Learning as “Together We Can” • Program materials include book with reproducible & dry-erase posters • $61.96 • Class-wide or small-group/partners • Also a computer version • Theories: • Teaching as a form of learning • Shared responsibility • Interactive, fun, and competitive (Cambium Learning Store, 2013a)

  10. CWPT: Characteristics of Target Group • All students in class • Can pair low-achieving students with high-achieving students • Or high with high and low with low • Teacher can structure lessons depending on class demeanor, environment, personality, etc.

  11. CWPT: Implementation • 30-minute sessions per day • 20 minutes for tutoring • 10 minutes for material preparation • Every Monday: • Students paired up into partners • One partner assigned to Team A, one partner assigned to Team B • Throughout the week: • Partners tutor and test each other • Partners reward points for correct answers • Progress Monitoring (every Friday): • Students individually tested on previous week’s material • Students individually pre-tested on next week’s material (What Works Clearinghouse, 2007, p. 1- 2)

  12. CWPT and RTI • Group-based • Interactive • Tier I or Tier Ii • Easy to implement and provides fun learning environment

  13. CWPT: Empirical Support • Review of 1 study for early literacy • Consisted of 416 students (What Works Clearinghouse, 2007)

  14. Cwpt: Longitudinal Effects • Used 416 first-grade students from original study • 303 remained • Divided into three groups: • High-risk/low SES treatment group • Received CWPT in reading (and math) from grades 1-4 • High-risk/low SES control group • Non-risk/high SES index group • Even after two years with no treatment/intervention: • High-risk treatment group were 31% higher than control group • No difference seen between non-risk index group & treatment group (Greenwood, Terry, Utley, Montagna, & Walker, 1993)

  15. References Cambium Learning Store: SoprisLearning. (2013). Sound partners. Retrieved from http://www.soprislearning.com/literacy/sound-partners Cambium Learning Store: Sopris Learning. (2013). Together we can. Retrieved from http://store.cambiumlearning.com/together-we-can/ Greenwood, C. R., Terry, B., Utley, C.A., Montagna, D., & Walker, D. (1993) Achievement placement and services: Middle school benefits of ClassWide Peer Tutoring used at the elementary school. School Psychology Review, 22(3), 497-516. Scammacca, N., Vaughn, S., Roberts., G., Wanzek, J., & Torgesen, J. K. (2007). Extensive reading interventions in grades K-3. Retrieved from http://www.fcrr.org/science/pdf/torgesen/extensive_reading_interventions_K-3.pdf US Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences. (n.d.). What works clearinghouse. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ What Works Clearinghouse. (2007). WWC intervention report: ClassWidepeer tutoring. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/intervention_reports/WWC_CWPT_070907.pdf What Works Clearinghouse. (2010). WWC intervention report: Sound partners. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/intervention_reports/wwc_soundpartners_092110.pdf

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