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Linking Teachers and Families to Promote the Oral Language and Vocabulary in Spanish and English of Preschool Children

Project LINK will develop a prototype for an integrated intervention delivered by preschool teachers and Latino families that will enhance the oral language skills and vocabulary of young Dual Language Learners. Pilot LINK is developed in English and Spanish for use in preschool classrooms, and in Spanish for use in the home.

Literacy Screener for Alaska Indigenous Languages

The Department of Education and Early Development has charged us with supporting schools teaching reading in Alaska Native languages in response to the Alaska Reads Act. Specifically, we have been charged with developing early literacy screeners for use in kindergarten through fifth grade in eight to ten Alaska Native languages over five years.

Literacy Study Group for Teachers of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

The purpose of this project is to develop Literacy Study Group (LSG), a web-based professional development intervention designed to assist special education teachers in delivering high-quality reading instruction to elementary school students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD).

Measures for Early Success Initiative: The Interactive Storybook Platform for the Equitable Assessment of Knowledge (I-SPEAK) (Phase 1- 5)

I-SPEAK is a preschool measure in English and Spanish that leverages a variety of interactive storybook narratives with embedded assessment prompts. It seeks to capture key developmental domains through stealth assessment techniques that honor children’s interests, experiences, and natural curiosity.

Middle School Intervention Project

Middle School Intervention Project (MSIP) is an evaluation study of the effectiveness of a comprehensive intervention targeting reading intervention, school engagement, and data-based decision-making.

MOCCA for Use in Middle and High School

Monarch Reader Collections

This implementation science project aims to improve both decoding and reading comprehension outcomes for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The project will create a conceptually coherent collection of texts, including decodable texts, to use during literacy instructional routines.

Morocco Reading for Success

In recent years, Morocco has made great improvements in advancing quality education.

Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment for Postsecondary Students (MOCCA-College): Measuring Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension Ability of Struggling College Readers by Text Type

The research team will refine and validate a reading comprehension assessment originally designed for third- to fifth-grade readers for use with postsecondary students.

Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment Refinement: Achieving Better Discrimination via Experimental Item Types and Adaptive Testing

This project will develop and refine a computer-adaptive version of MOCCA (Multiple-choice Online Cloze Comprehension Assessment), an existing reading comprehension measure for third- through fifth-grade readers. MOCCA helps distinguish between students who make one of two common comprehension errors.

Multiple-choice Online Cloze Comprehension Assessment

MOCCA (Multiple-choice Online Cloze Comprehension Assessment) is a measurement study targeting the assessment of reading comprehension processes among intermediate grade students.

National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy

Literacy for Students with Disabilities is to address current and emerging training and information needs of SEAs, LEAs, technical assistance (TA) centers, schools, and practitioners to select and implement evidence-based practices that will improve literacy outcomes for students with disabilities or students who show indicators of disabilities tha

Pakistan Reading Project

The Pakistan Reading Project, led by the International Rescue Committee in Islamabad, Pakistan, seeks to improve the reading achievement of 4 million elementary school students in Pakistan, and strengthen teacher certification and licensing programs throughout the country.

Project WRITE

Project Summary The primary objective of Project Write: Examining English Learners’ Writing Proficiency is to examine the English writing development of English learners (ELs) and identify the writing skills that discriminate between typically developing ELs and those who are at risk for writing difficulties.

Read Aloud: The Read Aloud Curriculum in First Grade Classrooms: Furthering Our Understanding of Immediate and Long-Term Impacts and Causal Influences

Read Aloud is a Goal 3 Efficacy and Replication study designed to investigate the impact of a Tier 1 (whole group) Read Aloud curriculum and a Tier 2 (small group) booster intervention on the reading achievement of first grade students.

SBIR MOCCA: Creating a Data-Based Decision-Making and Recommendation Tool for Reading Comprehension Instruction Using Diagnostic Results from MOCCA

Through a series of IES Research Grants, researchers created the MOCCA, an online diagnostic reading comprehension assessment for students in grades three to three and for college students who struggle reading.