Frederick Morrison

Intervention programs that target literacy skills have proven successful in boosting at-risk children's academic achievement. Yet the gains for these children, while important, are modest and often fall short of closing the achievement gap that emerges early in development. Emerging research evidence suggests that social-emotional understanding and self-regulation skills contribute in important ways to academic success in the early grades. In the present study, the research team will deve...

Research in the early 2000s indicated that the effects of instruction on reading depended on the specific early language and literacy skills that children brought to school. This research supported the idea that reading instruction should be tailored to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual student. In this project, the researchers aimed to develop and evaluate an approach to professional development and technology use designed to enable teachers to provide effective individualized ...