Improving the Academic Performance of First-Grade Students With Reading and Math Difficulty
Reading Learning Disability, Math Learning Disability
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Reading Learning Disability
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Attends a participating school in the Metropolitan-Nashville Public Schools
- Is a member of a first-grade classroom whose teacher has agreed to let his/her students participate
- Has the available school schedule to participate
- Has adequate English proficiency to be reliably assessed in English on study entry screening measures
- Scores at or below the 25th percentile on the study's screening math test
- Scores at or below the 25th percentile on the study's screening reading test
- Scores at or above the 7th percentile on at least one of the study's two measures of cognitive performance
Exclusion Criterion:
- Does not attend a participating school in the Metropolitan-Nashville Public Schools
- Is not a member of a first-grade classroom whose teacher has agreed to let his/her students participate
- Does not have the available school schedule to participate
- Does not have adequate English proficiency to be reliably assessed in English on study entry screening measures
- Scores above the 25th percentile on the study's screening math test
- Scores above the 25th percentile on the study's screening reading test
- Scores below the 7th percentile on both of the study's two measures of cognitive performance
Sites / Locations
- Vanderbilt University
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
No Intervention
Coordinated Reading and Math Intervention
Reading Intervention
Math Intervention
Business-as-usual Control
Coordinated intervention provides 15 weeks (3 30-minute sessions per week) of explicit instruction addressing similar skills as those addressed in the reading intervention arm & similar skills as the math intervention arm.
Reading intervention provides 15 weeks (3 30-minute sessions per week) of explicit instruction designed to build skill on letter-sound associations, decoding, sight words, & contextualized reading.
Math intervention provides 15 weeks (3 30-minute sessions per week) of explicit instruction on number knowledge, counting strategies, and arithmetic skill.
Participation in the school's typical reading and math classroom instruction and, if designated by the school, its supplemental program.