Reading Mastery and Corrective Reading Supplemental Instruction

This 2-year supplemental reading program served kindergarten through third grade students at risk for reading difficulties. The intervention provided 30 minutes of daily small-group instruction (groups of 2-3 students) focused on developing decoding skills and reading fluency through explicit phonemic awareness and phonics instruction, with practice reading decodable text. Students in kindergarten through second grade used Reading Mastery, while third and fourth graders used Corrective Reading. Nine instructional assistants delivered the intervention as a pullout program during the school day. The assistants received 10 hours of initial training and ongoing weekly supervision. During the summer between intervention years, some students (n=76) attended a 5-week summer school receiving 30 minutes of reading instruction 3 days per week using the same methods.