CLAVES Efficacy Study

This project will test the impact of the Comprehension, Academic Language, and Vocabulary for English Learner Students (CLAVES) program, which is a small-group literacy intervention for 4th and 5th grade English learners to promote academic language and literacy. CLAVES was previously developed and piloted through an IES grant The CLAVES Intervention Project: Developing a Supplemental Intervention for Comprehension, Linguistic Awareness, and Vocabulary in English for Spanish Speakers (R305A140114). The under-powered, quasi-experimental pilot study from this previous grant indicated that CLAVES may improve academic language, reading comprehension, and argument writing. The purpose of the proposed study is to evaluate the intervention in a fully powered multisite student randomized initial efficacy trial