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Early Steps

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Description

Early Steps is a structured one-to-one tutoring programme for first-grade pupils, delivered by tutors according to its named instructional schedule.

Components

  • Early Steps one-to-one first-grade tutoring program: Early Steps, based on an earlier version called Howard Street Tutoring, is a one-to-one tutoring model delivered in 30-minute sessions five days a week across the entire first grade year. Tutors follow "a daily schedule of re-reading familiar books, systematic word study, sentence writing, and introducing new books" using leveled, non-phonetic books. No technology is required. (Early Steps (2024))
  • Staff one-to-one tutoring with trained school staff rather than community volunteers: the programme's tutor-staffing requirement

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Early Steps. (2024). Evidence for ESSA program description. https://evidenceforessa.org/program/early-steps/
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title Early Steps
description Early Steps is a structured one-to-one tutoring programme for first-grade pupils, delivered by tutors according to its named instructional schedule.
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generated by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10
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