While reading instruction is among the hottest topics in educational circles, and while standardized testing seems to be the key topic among conversation among those both within and outside of education, amazingly there is a huge lack of available research on the effects of supplemental instruction on improving reading test scores.
RTI is clearly the topic of the day and there are scores of articles and studies documenting the rise of this 3 tiered strategy that aims to improve instruction for all students by delivering increasingly intense interventions for students at varying levels of need. However, there is very little available that outlines the aftermath of these interventions in any detail.
This lack of resources has made completing my own action research a real challenge as there is very little for me to refer back to. And yet, despite this, the initial returns on my own research are indicating that interventions, implemented across a grade level and delivered with consistency, can improve test scores. I find this to be rather encouraging.
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