Hofstadter-Duke and Daly (2011) studied the effects of a peer-delivered reading intervention program designed to increase oral reading fluency in first grade students referred for at risk reading fluency. The purpose of this empirical research was to conduct an experiment to examine the effects of a peer-delivered reading fluency intervention program on a student’s reading fluency scores. The research question examined in this study was: Would a peer-delivered reading intervention increase a student’s reading fluency scores? The research design was experimental. …show more content…
At the time of referral, Michelle was reading 11 correctly read words (CRW) per minute as compared to the class average of 66 CRW per minute. Three peers in the same classroom were selected by the teacher to be peer tutors. Peer tutors exceeded the classroom average performance of 66 CRW and were trained by the teacher on administering the intervention using explanation, modeling and practice sessions. Prior to each thirty minute intervention session, the peer tutor assessed Michelle’s reading fluency using four of six curriculum passages. After the intervention session, the teacher timed Michelle’s CRW on the third passage using the same criteria as the peer examiner. The teacher awarded points for exceeding previous CRW and points could be utilized to engage in a shared activity with her peer reading examiner in one data set while the other set the student had no extra incentive aside from beating her