Literacy Not Applicable Literacy
Conditions
Interventions
Catch Up® will recruit 150 primary schools where eight pupils from Year 4 and Year 5 will be nominated to take part in the trial. Schools will be randomly allocated into the intervention group or busi
selecting an appropriate book for the learner to read
delivery of two individual (one-to-one) sessions per week, each lasting 15 minutes
and ongoing monitoring, through which assessments for learning are revisited and targets are reviewed.
Business-as-usual (BaU) control group:
Schools allocated to BaU
Sponsors
Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Primary schools that aren’t already running Catch Up® Literacy or Catch Up® Numeracy will be eligible to take part in the trial. Schools will select up to 12 pupils whose reading age is below their chronological age.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Primary schools that are already running Catch Up® Literacy or Catch Up® Numeracy.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reading comprehension ability as measured by Hodder Group Reading test (HGRT) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Reading comprehension skills of Year 4 and Year 5 FSM (those eligible to receive free school meals) pupils as measured by HGRT 2. Reading skills of Year 4 and Year 5 pupils as measured by the Salford Sentence Reading Test (SSRT) and attitudes towards literacy 3. Attitudes towards school and self esteem of Year 4 and Year 5 pupils as measured by pupil surveys All these outcomes will be measured alongside the primary outcome measure in end of June/early July 2017. | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed