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Start Making a Reader Today (SMART): One-on-One Reading Tutoring for Early Elementary Students

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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

Full school year

Grades

1, 2

Personnel

Tutor, Other

Intervention Summary

Start Making a Reader Today (SMART) is a reading program intended to target early reading skills in elementary school students. SMART lessons use one-on-one tutoring sessions and four reading strategies: reading to students, reading with students, re-reading, and asking comprehension questions. Volunteers undergo a 1-2 hour training and use a handbook to guide their tutoring sessions, which occur twice a week for 30 minutes throughout the school year.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on fluency

Positive effect on comprehension

No effect on passage comprehension

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2007). Start Making a Reader Today (SMART). Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/374.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.