Research exercise: Reading Interventions in Relation to the Ohio Third Grade Guarantee

Authors

Presenter(s)

Kathryn Auletto

Comments

This poster reflects research conducted as part of a course project designed to give students experience in the research process.

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Description

Reading is one of the most critical skills that students learn in their first few years of education. A strong foundation in reading at the early childhood level can promote success in the rest of schooling and beyond. This is especially true for children of poverty; reading abilities and the strong education that follows provide students with opportunities to break the poverty cycle. The importance of reading achievement is a political dimension, as demonstrated by Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee. This legislation, which has many implications in education, requires that all third grade students who do not pass the Reading section of the Ohio Achievement Assessment must be retained until they are on reading level. In order to prevent this retention, teachers may choose to implement a reading intervention program with students who are at-risk of retention in third grade. The Ohio Department of Education provides districts with research-based reading instructional programs that may be implemented with these students. The list includes Reading Recovery and Orton Gillingham, two reading programs that use different approaches to literacy instruction. The research conducted in this study will look into the factors affecting a low-income school’s decision to select one of these two programs. The research will follow a dual case study format, in which interviews will be conducted with principals and teachers in the selected high poverty schools. The interviews, along with collected data about these schools and the two programs, will provide an illustration of how the Third Grade Reading Guarantee is affecting curriculum, as well as how schools are choosing these reading programs in accordance with the new legislation. The research may provide valuable information for low-income schools in this selection process for choosing the appropriate intervention for their struggling readers.

Publication Date

4-9-2014

Project Designation

Course Project

Primary Advisor

Mary-Kate Sableski

Primary Advisor's Department

Teacher Education

Keywords

Stander Symposium project

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Business | Education | Engineering | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

"Research exercise: Reading Interventions in Relation to the Ohio Third Grade Guarantee" (2014). Stander Symposium Projects. 504.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/504