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The Catch Up Project: a reading intervention in Year 3 for Level 1 readers (Research Note)
Author(s) -
ClipsonBoyles Suzi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9817.00104
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , period (music) , literacy , intervention (counseling) , sample (material) , mathematics education , primary education , treatment and control groups , developmental psychology , pedagogy , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , physics , chemistry , chromatography , psychiatry , acoustics , pathology
The Catch Up Programme is a literacy intervention designed for children who are behind with reading at the start of Year 3 (7 to 8 year‐olds). This paper describes pilot research that informed the project in its early stages of development, and the findings should therefore be treated with caution. The reading progress of a sample of 74 Catch Up pupils from 15 schools in three local education authorities was measured. This showed a considerable increase in pupils’ reading ages across a 10 week period. A smaller experimental study was also carried out in nine Oxfordshire schools (48 pupils) to compare a Catch Up sub‐sample with a Matched Time group and a Control group. Findings showed that the Catch Up pupils made considerably more progress during the same period than both the other groups.