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Testing the Effectiveness of Interactive Writing in the Targeted Reading Intervention in an Urban School

Area(s) of Work: K-12 Education

Kindergarten and first grade teachers at one Charlotte-Mecklenburg school will receive TRI training, ongoing professional development, and weekly webcam coaching as they participate in a small randomized controlled trial of the TRI with or without Interactive Writing (TRI-Only versus TRI+IW). All CMS teachers will provide daily one-on-one TRI instruction to individual students who struggle with reading. Half of the teachers will be randomized to also provide students with Interactive Writing activities as part of their daily TRI sessions. After students make rapid progress, teachers will work with another struggling reader. Weekly, TRI literacy coaches will use webcam technology to watch each teacher as he/she instructs a struggling reader and will support the teacher with real-time feedback. We expect all classroom teachers to provide better reading instruction for all struggling readers in their classrooms, with TRI+IW teachers providing better writing instruction for struggling readers. All struggling readers at the CMS school are expected to make dramatic growth, gaining at least one-third to one-half grade levels. In addition, struggling readers who receive TRI+IW are expected to improve at least one-third grade level in writing skills as compared to their TRI-Only struggling reader counterparts.

Award(s)

Funding Agency:  

Belk Foundation

Funding Period:  

05/15/2015 to 05/14/2016

Award Amount:  

$99,918