Delayed Effects of a Low-Cost and Large-Scale Summer Reading Intervention on Elementary School Children's Reading Comprehension

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 9, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-22

  Kim, James S ^a   Guryan, Jonathan ^b   White, Thomas G ^c   Quinn, David M ^a   Capotosto, Lauren ^d   Kingston, Helen Chen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

reading comprehension; reading interventions; scale up; summer reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975221235     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2016.1164780     Document Type: Article

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