Making Connections Intervention
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- Comprehension
Program Length
School Year
Program Description
"A unique blended learning solution that provides targeted literacy intervention for struggling readers in middle and high school. At the heart of the program is direct, explicit comprehension instruction. The blended model integrates the best of teacher-led instruction with engaging, individualized online instruction to maximize the depth, intensity, and effectiveness of the intervention."
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Sold as individual components.
More Pricing DetailsDemographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Intervention
- Intensified intervention
Grade
- Middle School
- High School
Intended Group Size
- Any
ELL/DLL
- Partial
Multisensory Applications
- No
Computer-Based Delivery
- Partial
Scripted
- Instructor Scripted
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Skill Specific
Placement Tests
- Yes
Accelerated Learning
- No
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- Yes
Error Correction Built In
- Yes
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- Unspecified
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
Literature review revealed one study in which participants who received the Making Connections Intervention made positive gains in reading comprehension at the end of the school year (medium effect size).
Study Citations
Corwin, J. H. (2016). The reading intervention program Making Connections Intervention and Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program scores in one east Tennessee school district (Doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University, 2016). TN: Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Evidence Base (ESSA)
- No studies met inclusion requirements
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Insufficient evidence