MIT neuroscientist John Gabrieli is trying to identify factors that may help to predict individual children's responses to different
types of reading interventions.
The researchers are hoping to identify more precisely the factors related to socioeconomic status, other environmental factors, or genetic components that could predict which
types of reading interventions will be successful for individual students.
Not exact matches
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).
Then, students who are not progressing adequately in the regular, high - quality classroom are provided with some
type of intervention — an additional, smaller math or
reading class, for example (tier two).
Dyslexia, the most common
type of reading disability, affects millions
of students across the U.S.. However, many myths and misunderstandings around dyslexia impede teachers» and parents» access to information and effective
interventions.
Initial pilot studies tested out these assumptions and determined that these
types of mediated
interventions can be successful in motivating students to
read and complete books and increase personal understanding
of the relevance
of reading and writing in the lives
of those who otherwise demonstrate an aversion to text - based media.
Compared with struggling readers who received other
types of intervention, children who received an
intervention focused on evidence - based application
of the alphabetic principle not only improved their
reading but also demonstrated increased activation in the neural systems for
reading (Shaywitz et al., 2004).
If CBMreading was administered with fidelity during all screening periods and her scores are believed to be valid estimates
of her
reading ability, a teacher might want to see what
type of instruction or
interventions Doloris received during those two time points.
Since 2000, through a contract with the University
of Virginia (UVA), the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) has been provided to school divisions at no charge to identify the students to receive
reading intervention, while specifying the
types of deficiencies to be addressed.
In addition to messages about the
type and timing
of infant feeding, the
intervention showed mothers how to
read their infants» cues, provided nonfood strategies for managing infants» behavior, and addressed mother — grandmother negotiations regarding feeding.