About the Project

Project MP3 will examine the implementation of a school-wide model of progress monitoring for grades K-4 in reading at five Pennsylvania elementary schools.  The information obtained through progress monitoring will be used to determine students’ needs for additional reading intervention, and will facilitate the development of a 3-tiered, Response-to-Intervention framework within the target schools.  Additionally, Project MP3 will seek to identify an effective method of monitoring the early literacy skills of preschool age children who feed the targeted elementary schools, and will examine how the information collected at the preschool level relates to readiness in the development of reading skills in early elementary students. The project is a joint partnership between Lehigh University, University of Pittsburgh, and the Pennsylvania Training & Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) and funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (Grant # H326M050001).