SCHOOL READING INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

School Reading Intervention Programs

School Reading Intervention Programs

Introduction

A brief comment on Tony Dowden's (2007) journal article calledRelevant, challenging, integrative and exploratory curriculum design: perspectives from theory and practice for middle schooling in Australia.

Dowden's (2007) journal article is specifically orientated towards education in the middle years, that is, students between ten and fourteen years of age. In order to make recommendations for the curriculum design of this age group he examines the effectiveness of the integrative and the multidisciplinary models of teaching. Dowden (2007) writes of the confusion teachers encounter with terminology in respect to curriculum integration and states that quite often teachers confuse multidisciplinary approaches with student-centred approaches. Student-centred approaches incorporate democratic input from students whereas multidisciplinary approaches, due to the reliance on long range planning, cannot. The majority of middle year students in Australia experience teacher-centred and teacher designed single subject based curricula (Dowden, 2007; Dowden & Nolan, 2006).

Dowden (2007) uses the term curriculum integration in a generic way, stating that the term has a broad definition. He states that the term may be applied to both student-centred and subject-centred

Method

In bearing out its study of reading understanding, It is very significant to consistently supervise the influence of a reading program by setting up benchmarks with an primary evaluation, reassessing each scholar frequently, and analyzing the allowance of gain that has been made since the intervention/program began. Reading is very significant to the development of children's reading abilities and their proficiency to get an education.

 

Analysis

Intervention I

Intervention I should rendezvous every day for not less than one class period. It is suggested that the reading intervention class take location in the morning. Students should stay in the class until such time as evaluation shows action to

Intervention II. Class dimensions should be restricted to six to eight students. ...