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Minimizing Reading Regression Through A Direct Instruction Summer Reading Program, Donald J. Pechous
Minimizing Reading Regression Through A Direct Instruction Summer Reading Program, Donald J. Pechous
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a Direct Instruction summer reading intervention program designed to minimize summer reading regression. The summer intervention program targeted the lowest quartile of readers in grades kindergarten through third grade from a suburban school district over a three-week period before the first official day of school. This intervention included specific and explicit teaching of skills to support reading fluency and comprehension. Data were collected and analyzed over three years from the district’s adopted curriculum-based measurement, AIMSweb Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement (R-CBM) and AIMSweb Test of Early Literacy (Phoneme Segmentation Fluency subtest). …