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Early Intervention in Reading (EIR): Preventing Reading Failure Among Low-Achieving First Grade Students

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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

Early Childhood

Duration

N/A

Grade

1

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Early Intervention in Reading (EIR) is a program that targets reading achievement in early elementary school students, specifically those at risk for reading failure. The program includes repeated reading of familiar stories, coached reading of a new story, phonemic awareness training, systematic phonics instruction, guided sentence writing, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction. The program also has a teacher training component that includes nine months of internet sessions and telephone support.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on alphabetics

Positive effect on comprehension

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2008). Early Intervention in Reading (EIR)®. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/241.

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.