A Randomized Experiment of a Mixed-Methods Literacy Intervention for Struggling Readers in Grades 4-6: Effects on Word Reading Efficiency, Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary, and Oral Reading Fluency

James S. Kim; Jennifer F. Samson; Robert Fitzgerald; Ardice Hartry

Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 23, No. 9 (October 2010) pp. 1109–1129

The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the causal effects of READ 180, a mixed-methods literacy intervention, on measures of word reading efficiency, reading comprehension and vocabulary, and oral reading fluency and (2) to examine whether...