Date of Award
2002
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Ed.D. Program in Child and Youth Studies
Advisor
Laura LaVanture
Committee Member
Fern Aefsky
Keywords
at-risk readers, at-risk students, college students, data analysis, educator committee, elementary schools, grade 3 promotion, individualized reading programs, oral reading, public schools, reading intervention programs, reading levels, retention, second grade students, social promotion, student promotion, transitional programs, tutoring
Abstract
This applied dissertation was designed to provide. an overview of a reading intervention program for at-risk 2nd grade students at a public elementary school. The school system lacked intervention programs to assist at-risk readers. Therefore, students were either retained or promoted without intervention programs.
The researcher developed a reading intervention program for 10 at-risk second grade students. The goal of the program was to increase reading levels so that the students could be promoted to Grade 3. Local college students tutored the students 3 times per week for 30 minutes each session. Each child was provided with an individualized reading program, which was developed from the pre-test. A committee of educators assisted with the planning, management, and evaluation of the reading program.
An analysis of the data revealed that all 10 students were promoted to Grade 3. Additionally, all 10 students increased their reading levels in the area of oral reading. Although all of the anticipated outcomes were not met, 3 out of 4 goals were obtained.