Improving the Academic Performance of First-Grade Students With Reading and Math Difficulty

Reading intervention provides 15 weeks (3 30-minute sessions per week) of explicit instruction to build skill on letter-sound associations, decoding, sight words, \& contextualized reading.

Math intervention provides 15 weeks (3 30-minute sessions per week) of explicit instruction on number knowledge \& counting strategies to build arithmetic skill.

Coordinated intervention provides 15 weeks (30-minute sessions per week) of explicit instruction addressing the similar skills as in the reading intervention arm \& similar objectives as the math intervention arm.