| Title: | Does a Summer Reading Program Based on Lexiles Affect Reading Comprehension? |
| Description: | To successfully engage in today’s global market, students need advanced literacy skills (Snow, Burns, and Griffin 1998). A lack of proficiency in reading is more widely found in children from economically disadvantaged families (Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson 2007; Lee, Grigg, and Donahue 2007); in fact, by grade 4, only 46 percent of students from economically disadvantaged families achieve reading proficiency above the basic level (Perie, Grigg, & Donahue, 2005). One reason that these students tend to have lower reading proficiency is that they experience a decline in reading comprehension over the summer months, known as summer reading loss (Cooper et al. 1996; David 1979). This disproportionate reading loss for economically disadvantaged students may, in part, be explained by the limited access to books and literacy-related activities in the home environment that many of these students experience. |
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| Cover Date: | March 2012 |
| Web Release: | March 7, 2012 |
| Publication #: | REL 20124006 |
| Center/Program: | REL |
| Associated Centers: | NCEE |
| Authors: | Chuck Wilkins, Russell Gersten, Lauren E. Decker, Leslie Grunden, Sarah Brasiel, Kim Brunnert, and Madhavi Jayanthi |
| Type of Product: | Evaluation Report |
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