Start Making a Reader Today (SMART): One-on-One Reading Tutoring for Early Elementary Students
About the Intervention
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 Findings
Positive effect on fluency
Positive effect on comprehension
No effect on passage comprehension
More Intervention Details
Focus Areas
Economically DisadvantagedPrograms & Services
General EducationDelivery Methods
Face-to-FaceDisability Support
Specific learning disabilityTarget Groups
Student(s)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.
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