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Claire White MADOE. 2. Reading First Schools.
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1. Claire White MADOE 1 Vocabulary Support for ELLs in Massachusetts Reading First Schools Claire White
Office of Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement
Massachusetts Department of Education
cwhite@doe.mass.edu
2. Claire White MADOE 2 Reading First Schools “..target struggling readers from specific high risk sub-groups;” ELA/MCAS 2003: Grade 3: 48% of LEPs were at the “Needs Improvement” level while 30% were at the ‘Warning’ level; These high risk sub-groups “benefit from particular strategies, materials and approaches” which have been shown to be effective in improving phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension