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STARI STUDENTS OUTPERFORMED CONTROL STUDENTS BY MORE THAN A YEAR’S WORTH OF GROWTH.
Evidence STARI Works
In a 2013-14 randomized, clinical trial, STARI students outperformed control students in decoding, fluency, vocabulary, sentence structure, and comprehension.
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Jasmine, 8th Grade STARI has helped me
become a better reader because talking with
others and hearing the opinions of others can
help me learn more about what I'm reading
about.
TIER II READING INTERVENTION
Word
Recognitio
n
Vocabulary
Morphological
Awareness
Sentence
Processi
ng
Efficiency
of Basic
Reading Comprehension
Reading
Comprehension
Reading
Comprehension
(GISA)
Impact of STARI on RISE and GISA
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An engaging, literature-focused curriculum for students in grades 6-9 reading two or
more years behind grade level
Other intervention (control) Assigned to STARI Completed 2-3 units of STARI
AJ, 8th Grade STARI has actually
helped me to become a better reader because, at the beginning of the year, I thought I wasn't
much of a fluent reader. I kept pausing in the middle of reading a
sentence. But the more I read, the more practice it took ... I just became
better.
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Development of STARI was led by Lowry Hemphill (Wheelock College) through a SERP collaboration with Harvard University and four Massachusetts school districts. The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305F100026 to the Strategic Education Research Partnership as part of the Reading for Understanding Research Initiative. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.
STARI is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Harlem Renaissance
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In War Time
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Telling Our Stories
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Series 1 Grades 6-8
Each series addresses similar reading needs, but the series 2 topics and reading materials are more sophisticated. Each unit is designed to take approximately 40 instructional days and includes:
Student Workbooks Engaging activities build higher-level comprehension skills and emphasize collaborative partner work
Literature selections Sets of high quality nonfiction and fiction books at accessible challenge levels
Leveled Fluency Passages Sets of passages at four levels of difficulty with topics linked to unit themes
Teacher Lesson Plans Detailed guides to each lesson’s activities
Fluency routine
15-20 min
Mini-lesson
10-15 min
Guided reading 15-20 min
Partner reading
15-20 min
Leveled fluency passages ✔ develop reading rate and stamina ✔ offer practice with academic language patterns ✔ build background knowledge for the unit novel and
nonfiction books
Decoding instruction ✔ builds strategies to attack complex words ✔ focuses on multisyllable words and complex letter
patterns that often trip up older struggling readers ✔ includes frequent practice embedded in text
Comprehension strategy instruction ✔ uses Reciprocal Teaching approach to build a
repertoire of comprehension strategies ✔ teaches when, why and how to apply strategies ✔ emphasizes partner work as a scaffold between
teacher-led and independent use of strategies
Partner reading ✔ builds social bonds and strengthens belonging ✔ counteracts prior experiences of reading failure ✔ provides frequent opportunity for every student to
engage in eyes-on-text reading
Guided reading ✔ provides a structure to access texts in manageable
chunks ✔ supports students in applying strategies taught in
whole-class mini-lessons ✔ builds up students’ stamina for reading
independently Peer talk ✔ promotes more complex response to text ✔ supports perspective taking ✔ supports listening skills
Debate ✔ provides social motivation for developing more
elaborated stances ✔ requires students to integrate evidence
from multiple texts ✔ offers opportunities for practicing
academic discourse patterns
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
TYPICAL STARI LESSON Each lesson consists of 2-3 of the following activities:
Using research-based practices and highly engaging texts, STARI addresses gaps in fluency, decoding, reading stamina, and reading comprehension, aiming to move struggling students to higher levels of proficiency at the end of one year. STARI actively engages students in discussions of cognitively challenging content aligned to 21st century standards.
STARI is built around key research findings:
‣ Adolescent struggling readers need to work on both basic reading skills and the skills that underlie deep comprehension.
‣ Texts need to engage students with issues that are personally and socially relevant.
‣ Peer talk about text can develop reading engagement, perspective-taking, and critical reading.
In order to be successful with STARI, we recommend no more than 14 students per class. In addition, schools should devote either 45-60 minutes, 5 days a week, or 90 minutes on an A-day/B-day schedule to STARI.
STARI is intended to be a “double dose” intervention that should not take the place of core curriculum.
ABOUT STARI
Series 2 Grades 7-9