Students in the reading conditions were provided a daily, 50 minute reading intervention
class (Reading Interventions for Adolescents [RIA]) in groups of approximately 10 students that
took the place of an elective. Students in the comparison and DO only conditions participated in
an elective class such as art, music, athletics, or a foreign language. REWARDS (Archer,
Gleason, & Vachon, 2003) review lessons provided the content for advanced word study. To
address comprehension, we developed a series of 8-day instructional units aligned with
recommendations from the recently published IES Adolescent Literacy Practice Guide (Kamil, et
al., 2008) and implemented according to the principles of Collaborative Strategic Reading