Reading Mastery, Corrective Reading Help Students with Disabilities Achieve Significant Academic Growth

This case study from Clover School District, South Carolina, examines the academic growth of special education students after one year of using McGraw Hill's Reading Mastery and Corrective Reading. The district serves approximately 5,600 students in grades K-12. In the 2005-2006 school year, Reading Mastery was implemented in grades K-2 and Corrective Reading was implemented in grades 3-8 for special education students in self-contained and some resource classrooms. The study analyzed growth on the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. The results showed that special education students achieved significant academic growth, in some cases surpassing the average growth of regular education students. For example, special education students in Grade 4 showed an average growth of 12 points, compared to an average of 6 points for all students. The study notes the importance of implementation fidelity, with one Grade 7 student in a class with high fidelity achieving a 20-point gain in MAP scores from fall 2005 to spring 2006.