Read Aloud Small-Group Curriculum
Study: Fien et al. (2011)

Summary

Descriptive Information

The Read Aloud Small-Group Curriculum is an instructional program designed to provide additional opportunities to preview, review, and enhance vocabulary and comprehension through the use of teacher read alouds with expository text. At that place are 9 instructional Units in the plan. Each weekly Unit includes 4, xx infinitesimal lessons. A consistent set of instructional routines is used across lessons earlier, during, and after each read aloud. Earlier a read aloud, educational activity focuses on groundwork knowledge edifice and explicit vocabulary instruction. During reading, teachers introduce question-asking strategies focused on identifying the master idea and details. A guided note-taking process is also used to help students record information about the main idea. After a read aloud, students engage in cumulative review activities. Vocabulary is discussed through the use of game formats, and comprehension is reviewed through the use of a primary thought categorization activity. Throughout the Small-scale-Group Curriculum, text-based discourse is used as a context for student language use and as an opportunity to prompt student vocabulary use and linguistic communication-based elaborations. The programme is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and National Science Educational activity Standards.

Target Populations:
  • Students with learning disabilities
  • English language language learners
  • Any pupil at risk for academic failure
Area(s) of Focus:
  • Comprehension
  • Vocabulary

Acquisition & Cost

Where to Obtain:
Scott K. Baker, Lana Edwards Santoro, Hank Fien, David J. Chard, Susanna Williams
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Information on cost and press tin can be obtained from the developer at readingctl@uoregon.edu

Training & Technical Back up

Staff Qualified to Administer Include:
  • Special Education Teacher
  • General Education Teacher
  • Reading Specialist
  • Math Specialist
  • EL Specialist
  • Interventionist
  • Educatee Support Services Personnel (e.g., counselor, social worker, school psychologist, etc.)
  • Paraprofessional
  • Other:
Training Requirements:
4-viii hours of training

The Read Aloud Pocket-sized-Grouping Curriculum was evaluated in a study with first-grade students identified with low linguistic communication and vocabulary skills. Overall, 102 first-course students scoring below the 50th percentile on relational vocabulary were blocked by classroom, matched according to vocabulary score, and randomly assigned inside 18 participating classrooms to one of ii conditions. All students in the study participated in a whole-class Read Aloud Curriculum and students in the intervention grouping received pedagogy from the Read Aloud Small-scale-Grouping Curriculum for 20 min, two ten per week, for viii weeks in addition to the whole grouping instruction in add-on to the whole-group didactics. Because students were nested under instructional conditions within classrooms or blocks, three-level hierarchical linear modeling provided an appropriate analytic framework to test the event of the Read Aloud Small-Group Curriculum.

Access to Technical Back up:
readingctl@uoregon.edu

Assistants

Recommended Administration Formats Include:
  • Small grouping of students
Minimum Number of Minutes Per Session:
20
Minimum Number of Sessions Per Week:
four
Minimum Number of Weeks:
9
Detailed Implementation Manual or Instructions Available:
Yep
Is Engineering science Required?
No technology is required.