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Improving Middle School Reading Comprehension

Students at risk of school failure who used Read to Achieve had greater gains than comparison students.

  • Literacy
  • Intervention
  • Read to Achieve
  • ESSA Tier III (Promising)
  • Middle School
  • 7th Grade
  • 8th Grade
  • PreK-12
  • Research
  • Washington

Description

Article Abstract

Twenty middle school students received targeted reading instruction for 22 weeks using a reading-to-learn intervention program. Scores on the AIMSweb MAZE CBM served as the dependent measure. Seventeen students from the same middle school served as the comparison group. Results indicated that the intervention produced statistically and educationally significant effects.

Citation

Benner, G., Marchand-Martella, N.E., Martella, R. C., & Cleanthous, C. (2015). Improving middle school reading comprehension. The WERA Educational Journal, 7(2), 57-59.