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Assessing The Promise Of A Supplemental Reading Intervention For At-Risk First Grade Students In A Public School Setting, Kouider Mokhtari, Joanna Neel, Forrest Kaiser, Hong-Hai Le
Assessing The Promise Of A Supplemental Reading Intervention For At-Risk First Grade Students In A Public School Setting, Kouider Mokhtari, Joanna Neel, Forrest Kaiser, Hong-Hai Le
Kouider Mokhtari
In this exploratory quasi-experimental case study, we assessed the promise of a yearlong supplemental reading intervention with a small pilot group of at-risk first grade readers in an elementary school setting. Using standardized measures of reading proficiency, we found that after 47 hours of one-on-one tutoring instruction, students read significantly more proficiently than did non-tutored students in a matched group of first grade peers in the same school. These results are encouraging in light of literacy research documenting the impact of one-on-one tutoring by qualified tutors of at-risk early grade readers. We used lessons learned from this pilot study to …