An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for a Local Population of Primary School Children
Keywords:
Literacy, Reading Intervention, Primary School, Fluency, Reading, NEPS, National Educational Psychological ServiceAbstract
The skill of being able to read fluently and effectively is essential to success in school. There are many reading interventions available but research on their effectiveness is relatively new. This project was initiated by the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in January 2007 and was aimed at exploring the effectiveness of reading interventions available to learning support and resource teachers. The authors wanted to find out which of the reading interventions found in previous research to be effective, were most effective with the local population of primary aged children. In addition, this project was set up to encourage and support those teachers involved with teaching this cohort of children in their delivery of structured programmes.
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