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The York Reading for Meaning Project: Evaluating interventions designed to support reading comprehension

This research project makes explicit links between theory and practice, and evaluates three approaches to improving reading comprehension in children who have weaknesses in understanding what they read;

1. A package of intervention materials comprising oral language components (the Oral Language (OL) programme);
2. A package of text-based activities incorporating written language components (the Text Comprehension (TC) Programme);
3. An approach that integrates both oral and written components (the Combined (COM) Programme).

The York Reading for Meaning Project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and was run by researchers whilst employed at the Centre for Reading and Language, University of York; Dr. Paula Clarke (now at School of Education, University of Leeds), Emma Truelove (now training at University of Sheffield), Professor Maggie Snowling (University of York) and Professor Charles Hulme (now at University College London).

Copyright Reading for Meaning Project 2010

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