Reading Plus: Improving Comprehension for Adolescent Learners
Intervention Details
Subject
English Language ArtsAcademic Programs
Remedial Education, General EducationDuration
9-30 weeksGrades
5, 6, 7, 8, 9Personnel
General Education Teacher
Intervention Summary
Reading Plus is a web-based program that targets reading comprehension for adolescent learners in grades 5-9. The program includes assessment and intervention components, as well as supplemental offline activities for direct instruction. After an initial assessment, the program assigns students to an intervention path and adapts to meet individual needs. A typical 45-minute session includes visual perceptual warm-up activities, scaffolded silent reading activities, and contextual analysis activities to build word knowledge and comprehension skills. Teachers are provided guidelines for organizing small-group and whole-group comprehension skills instruction using offline assignments.
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8, 9Personnel
General Education TeacherStatistical Finding Summary
Positive effect on comprehension for adolescent learners
Source
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2010). Reading Plus®. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/733.
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.