Monday, April 14, 2008

Structured Reading Programs After School Can Have an Impact if Implemented Properly

A study recently released by Aridce Hartry, Robert Fitzgerald, and Kristie Porter profiled the opportunities and challenges in providing structured afterschool reading programs for fourth, fifth and sixth graders. Their work focused on this group of students who were low-performing and structured reading programs after school was thought to be an effective strategy to help increase their literacy skills. Not surprisingly, the impact of this strategy was linked to how effectively it was being implemented.

Read their full article on-line courtesy of Red Orbit that was posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008.

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