Donna Caccamise

In this project, researchers will develop and pilot test the eBRAVO intervention aimed at helping middle school students develop deep comprehension skills necessary to read, comprehend, and build knowledge for informational texts. This intervention will be an adaptation of a previously developed intervention (BRAVO; Fostering Comprehension and Knowledge-Building in Middle-School Struggling Readers) shown in pilot work to have promise for improving students' reading comprehension outcomes. Th...

This project will develop and refine an intervention designed to improve reading for struggling readers through explicit comprehension instruction in a content-area context. The intervention, called Literacy Navigator, will teach readers how to build a coherent representation of the informational text they are reading and how to integrate the new content with their existing knowledge. The intervention will be designed for use in remedial classes to help students who have adequate decoding sk...