Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Leadership Studies
Department
Leadership Studies
Committee Chair
Brown, Gail F.
Committee Member
Watts, Jeri H.
Committee Member
Jones, Roger E.
Abstract
This study was designed to determine if twenty days of reading intervention would have an impact on preventing summer learning loss for students entering first grade. Research indicates that while all students show some losses each summer, students with limited resources, commonly referred to as economically disadvantaged, suffer greater losses. This study showed evidence of reducing summer learning loss for students in the participant group at an urban school district in central Virginia. The data in this study supports the body of literature that indicates that summer quality programming is important and can have an impact on reducing summer learning loss for students, especially students in poverty.
Recommended Citation
Huskin, Amy D., "Kinder Camp Provides Reading Ramp : A Study to Examine the Effects of Summer Learning Loss on Beginning Readers" (2014). Graduate Dissertations and Theses. 13.
https://digitalshowcase.lynchburg.edu/etd/13
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education Commons, Reading and Language Commons