Title:
Guided independent reading practice for elementary children from rural and low-socioeconomic backgrounds and its effect on mitigating summer reading loss
Author:
Cara Schrack
Thesis Advisor:
Kelly Bull
Committee Member:
Mark Fenster
Committee Member:
Dawn Jacobs
Degree Granting Institution:
Notre Dame of Maryland University--School of Education
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Date Created:
2017
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
Although most children look forward to summer vacation, not all children benefit from the time away from school. Specifically, children from low-socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds may suffer a loss in reading skills during this time when removed from resources that school provides. Children who are struggling readers are at more of a disadvantage. Many of these children do not go on vacation or have other enriching summer experiences when compared to their peers from middle- and high-economic backgrounds. SummerBoost camp, a program facilitated in rural schools that partner with the educational nonprofit, Save the Children, is designed to reduce summer learning loss. Specifically, the camp offers the reading intervention Guided Independent Reading Practice (GIRP) to children. This intervention offers the guidance of an adult to ensure children are permitted to preselect their own books that can be read independently and successfully. There is a gap in the research to indicate whether this intervention can impact summer reading loss for children, specifically struggling readers in low-SES, rural schools. Using STAR Reading assessment by Renaissance Learning, this dissertation presents results that show struggling readers benefit most from this intervention for a two-year period. Attending one year did not yield strong results to help mitigate summer reading loss.
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Educational Leadership for Changing Populations
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Identifier:
SchrackC-17
