An Assessment of Early Steps: A Program for Early Intervention of Reading Problems

• Published in: Reading research quarterly Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 54 - 79
• Main Authors: Santa, Carol M., Høien, Torleiv
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.1999; International Reading Association
• Subjects: At risk students; At risk youth; Beginning Reading; Child psychology; childhood; Children; Children & youth; Childrens literature; Control groups; Curriculum subjects: programmes and methods; early childhood; Early Intervention; Educational psychology; Educational sciences; experiment; Grade 1; High Risk Students; Instructional Effectiveness; intervention; Invented Spelling; learner; Learning; Literacy; methodology; new; phonics; Phonological Awareness; Phonology; Primary Education; program; Program Descriptions; Program Evaluation; programs; Readers; Reading Achievement; Reading comprehension; Reading Deficiencies; Reading difficulties; Reading Failure; Reading Improvement; Reading Programs; Reading research; Reading Skills; Reading, writing; Remedial Reading; Researchers; scientific; sociocultural; socioeconomic; Speech discrimination; strategies; struggling; Teaching methods; theoretical; topic; Tutoring; type; Vowels; Writing; Writing instruction; Youths at risk; Primary School Student; Learning Aptitude; Language Disorder; Dyslexia; Teaching method; Phonology; Early Reading

In this study the authors examine issues related to selecting and evaluating early intervention programs for first graders at serious risk for failing in reading acquisition. The program evaluated is Early Steps, an intervention with one-to-one tutoring and with particular emphasis on story reading,...