Tag Archives: Academic Interventions
Improving Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Pre-Teens and Teens
A lot of reading intervention research and practice focuses on early elementary age children who are still in the […]
Sight Words, Zipf’s Law, and Reading Fluency: Yes, They Go Together
High frequency words are the words that readers encounter the most often in printed text. Another term that you […]
Reading Fluency: The Next Step in Reading
We talked about the first two broad areas of reading development, phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle. Now, we’ll […]
Meet the Faculty/Staff – Dr. Merilee McCurdy
Dr. McCurdy received her PhD in School Psychology from Mississippi State University. For 14 years, prior to joining the […]
Easy Reading Intervention: Listening Passage Preview
Listening Passage Preview is a simple academic intervention that targets reading fluency. This intervention involves an accomplished reader reading […]
Increase Elementary Reading Vocabulary: Error Word Drill
Error Word Drill (EWD) is a technique used to help developing readers learn vocabulary words. EWD has been effective […]
Paired Reading: A Simple Reading Fluency Intervention
Paired Reading is an easy academic intervention that involves the student reading out loud in tandem with another helping […]
Easy Spelling and Math Fact Intervention: Elementary-Age Students
Cover, Copy, and Compare (CCC) is an easy academic intervention. CCC has been effective in increasing students’ fluency and […]
Research for Teachers: Three-Mysteries Procedure Increases Classroom Math Performance
In an initial 2017 study published in School Psychology Review, University of Tennessee researchers Scott, Skinner, Moore, McCurdy, Ciancio, and […]