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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Enhancing Reading Skills in 1st Grade Children

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03644914

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Official title

Enhancing Reading Skills in 1st Grade Children Identified as Reading Below Grade Level

Brief summary

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The purpose of the present study is to assess a reading intervention for first graders who are identified by their teachers as reading below grade level. The intervention addresses reading skills through a variety of techniques including games, play, movement exercises, music, and breaks to enhance literacy skills and reduce frustration commonly accompanying sight word recognition and phonemic decoding. Over half of elementary school students in the United States are reading below grade level compared to their same age peers. Children with poor reading skills are more likely to experience academic and behavioral problems. When students are not reading at grade level by 4th grade, they are more likely to experience future academic failure, school dropout, juvenile delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and under- or unemployment in adulthood. Traditional methods of classroom large group instruction require children to sit quietly and concentrate on small print for extended periods of time. Many children experience frustration and agitation in response to such reading demands.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03644914
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Columbia University
Other
Enrollment
24 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
6 Years to 7 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Feb 14, 2019
Primary completion
Jun 20, 2019
Completion
Jun 29, 2019
Last update posted
Jul 8, 2019

2019

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
NYC Elementary Public School (recruitment location) New York New York 10037

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