Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students With Reading Difficulties
Vocabulary and Comprehension
Wanzek, J., Boardman, A., Vaughn, S., & Harbor, A. (2010). Vocabulary and comprehension: Effective upper-elementary interventions for students with reading difficulties. Austin, TX: The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, The University of Texas at Austin.
Developed with funds from The Meadows Foundation, this guide provides a set of reading comprehension strategies that upper-elementary students can learn to use before, during, and after reading. Teachers often report that when students learn a routine for reading comprehension, they are better able to actively engage in reading. The set of strategies provided in this guide offer a routine for reading and understanding text, based on current research in effective reading strategies for struggling readers (e.g., National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000).
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Word Recognition and Fluency
Wanzek, J., Harbor, A., & Vaughn, S. (2010). Word recognition and fluency: Effective upper-elementary interventions for students with reading difficulties. Austin, TX: The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, The University of Texas at Austin.
Developed with funds from The Meadows Foundation, this resource book presents lessons that teach word recognition skills and strategies in a systematic and cumulative way. Students build knowledge as lessons progress from easy to difficult skills. Previously learned skills are reviewed, linked to newly presented content, and included in the new lesson’s practice activities. The example words in practice activities were selected to be useful in students’ school and home lives. As lessons progress, students learn the skills and strategies to read an increasing number and variety of words—thus allowing students to read more sentences and longer texts. A lesson structure is also presented for teaching irregular words. This lesson structure can be used daily from the beginning to teach new irregular words for student reading.