NCEE Evaluation Brief: The Effect of Supplemental Reading Comprehension Curricula on Grade 5 Students

Educators are looking for ways to improve reading comprehension across content areas in late elementary years, especially among more disadvantaged students who increasingly fall behind. But first-year results from this study of four grade 5 supplemental reading comprehension curricula show no effects for three of the curricula and a negative effect for the fourth. For the full evaluation report visit: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094032/index.asp

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