| Early Intervention in Reading is an Internet-delivered Professional Development program for teachers to help struggling young readers in grades K-4. | |
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Children who don't learn to read in the early grades have a hard time catching up in reading. |
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An essential component of Early Intervention in Reading is the ongoing professional development program for teachers. |
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EIRŽ has twelve years of research documenting results. It was developed by Dr. Barbara Taylor, a professor at the University of Minnesota. |
Examples Include:
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72% of first grade children at risk of failing to learn to read in first grade are reading independently by the end of the year after EIRŽ training, and 91% of the children who have been followed into grade 2 are reading on a second grade level in May of second grade. |
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85% of the children who come to second grade reading on a preprimer level or lower are reading on a second grade level by the end of the year, and 92% of the children in follow-up evaluations are reading on a grade 3 level in May of third grade. |
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Recent Honors:
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EIRŽ is one of seventeen literacy programs selected for inclusion in the National Staff Development Council/National Education Association 2002 publication, What Works in the Elementary Grades: Results-Based Staff Development (p.56). - View/Download |
EIR Features
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EIRŽ is researched based and focuses on the five essential elements of effective reading instruction dealing with phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency and comprehension strategies. |
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Systematic introduction of and instruction in letter-sound relationships |
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Vocabulary highlighted for all students and for English language learners |