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Closing the Gap Early: Implementing a Literacy Intervention for At-Risk Kindergartners in Urban Schools

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MacDonald, Colleen; Figueredo, Lauren – Reading Teacher, 2010

A history of poverty and low academic achievement in four urban schools pointed to the need to implement an early intervention focused on oral language and emergent literacy. The Kindergarten Early Literacy Tutoring (KELT) Program was designed to target senior (5 year old) kindergarten students most at-risk. The intervention consisted of an extra…

Descriptors: Urban Schools, Early Intervention, Oral Language, Program Effectiveness

Comparison of Failure in i.t.a. and T.O

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Downing, John – Reading Teacher, 1969

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Achievement, Reading Research