Lynne Vernon-Feagans

The purpose of this proposal is to examine the effects of the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI) professional development program in helping rural kindergarten and first grade classroom teachers in low-wealth schools implement evidence-based, individualized reading instruction for the children in their classrooms who are struggling in learning how to read. Specifically, this proposal aims to understand whether the TRI can improve teacher knowledge in both the foundation and the peda...

The idea that instructional strategies should be matched to individual student skills has a long history in education. Recent research indicates that the match between child skills and teacher instruction in the early elementary grades is critical to children's reading achievement. In this project, researchers will examine teacher instructional strategies as a moderator of child grade entry skills in predicting literacy achievement at 2nd and 3rd grade. Researchers will use data from the Fam...