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Experimental Effects of Word Generation on Vocabulary, Academic Language, and Perspective Taking in High Poverty Middle Schools
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Time to Act, a 2009 report of the Carnegie Corporation’s Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, concludes that U.S. students are ill-prepared for the literacy challenges of 21st century higher education, employment, and ...
Can a Mixed-Method Literacy Intervention Improve the Reading Achievement of Low-Performing Elementary School Students in an After-School Program?: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial of READ 180 Enterprise
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2011)
This article describes an independent evaluation of the READ 180 Enterprise intervention
designed by Scholastic, Inc. Despite widespread use of the program with upper elementary
through high school students, there is ...
The Effects of Summer Reading on Low-Income Children's Literacy Achievement From Kindergarten to Grade 8: A Meta-Analysis of Classroom and Home Interventions
(Sage, 2013)
This meta-analysis reviewed research on summer reading interventions conducted in the
United States and Canada from 1998 to 2011. The synthesis included 41 classroom- and home-based summer reading interventions, involving ...
Teacher Study Group: Impact of the Professional Development Model on Reading Instruction and Student Outcomes in First Grade Classrooms
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2010)
Randomized field trials were used to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group
(TSG), a professional development model, on first grade teachers’ reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, their knowledge of ...
Delayed Effects of a Low-Cost and Large-Scale Summer Reading Intervention on Elementary School Children’s Reading Comprehension.
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)
To improve the reading comprehension outcomes of children in high poverty schools, policymakers need to identify reading interventions that show promise of effectiveness at scale. This study evaluated the effectiveness ...
Replicating the effects of a teacher-scaffolded voluntary summer reading program: The role of poverty.
(Wiley, 2014)
A randomized trial involving 19 elementary schools (K-5) was conducted to replicate and extend two previous experimental studies of the effects of a voluntary summer reading program that provided (a) books matched to ...
A randomized experiment of a cognitive strategies approach to text-based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English language learners in grades 6-12.
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)
This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled
trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text-based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) ...
Peer influence on children’s reading skills: A social network analysis of elementary school classrooms.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2016)
Research has found that peers influence the academic achievement of children. However, the mechanisms through which peers matter remain underexplored. The present study examined the relationship between peers’ reading ...
Enhancing the Interpretive Reading and Analytical Writing of Mainstreamed English Learners in Secondary School: Results From a Randomized Field Trial Using a Cognitive Strategies Approach
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2012)
In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and ...
Can Silent Reading in the Summer Reduce Socioeconomic Differences in Reading Achievement?
(International Reading Association, 2010)