Not exact matches
Research has shown that reading
interventions are most successful in
kindergarten and first grade.
Supportive
interventions can help some students, but these
interventions are often implemented too late (after years of reading failure, despite evidence that taking action is most effective in
kindergarten and first grade)
and haphazardly (schools
and teachers often do not know what can work for various types of students).
Like the high school teacher who blames the middle - school teacher
and the middle - school teacher who blames the elementary school (as a
first grade teacher I often wondered what had happened in
Kindergarten), our yellow schools should be among our
first line of
intervention to ensure schools don't eventually become persistently low - performing.
We have to start earlier — we need
interventions and supports in
kindergarten,
first and second
grades.
Early
intervention or additional direct instruction should begin as early as
kindergarten or
first grade for struggling readers when the gap is small
and students benefit from brain plasticity advantages for learning language - based information.
The study investigated these two groups of pre-
kindergarten children on immediate (prekindergarten), intermediate (
kindergarten)
and longer term (
first grade) outcomes as well as examined a number of key factors that may impact
intervention including: child history of EI / ECSE
and other educational services, child characteristics,
and familial risk factors.
Limitations include students only received a portion of the PATHS curriculum (the
intervention typically begins in
Kindergarten or
First grade,
and some students entered the school after the
intervention began), raters were not blind to condition,
and lack of post-
intervention follow - up.
Observers ratings showed that teachers in the
intervention group had significant improvements in warmth, social / emotion, inconsistent,
and harsh / critical compared with control teachers; Head Start
intervention teachers showed significant improvements in effective discipline compared with Head Start control teachers, but no effect was found for
first -
grade and kindergarten teachers.
Kindergarten and first -
grade children (n = 327) enrolled in 10 schools were screened for aggressive behavior,
and randomized to two model variations of the Early Risers Program or a no -
intervention control condition.