OVERVIEW:
The Corrective Reading programme is designed to address deficiencies in decoding and comprehension and is suitable for readers of all ages and skills levels. It is made up of two major strands – Decoding and Comprehension.
The Decoding strand provides a blend of teacher-directed instruction and high frequency practice to accelerate decoding. This programme progresses from teaching letter sounds and blending to reading passages typical of textbook material. The Comprehension strand is designed for students who read without understanding and aims to develop vocabulary, information and comprehension strategies – applying prior knowledge, making inferences and analysing evidence.
TARGET GROUP:
Two NBSS partner schools, participating in the Teacher as Researcher project, have piloted the use of the Corrective Reading Programme (SRA) with students. In one school two teachers used the Corrective Reading Programme (SRA) with two separate groups - six 1st year students and a group of five 2nd and 3rd year students, every day, for 40-80 minutes over two months following on-site training sessions with the NBSS in the operation of the programme. The following are the quantitative findings.
QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS:
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At the commencement of the intervention, the eleven students all had reading ages more than 3 years lower than their chronological ages.
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The mean chronological age of the cohort at the start of the intervention was 13.7 years (the median and mode chronological ages were both 13.4 years).
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The mean pre-intervention reading age of the group was 9 years (the median reading age was 8.11 years)
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Post intervention, the mean reading age was 10 years (both the median and mode reading ages were 10 years 10 months).