The effects of an intervention program on middle school students' literacy skills

The Central Queensland University Accelerated Metacognition Literacy Intensive Tuition (CAMLIT) program was implemented to address issues that impact on middle-school students’ sophisticated literacy development where they use higher-level language and thinking skills for comprehension. The CAMLIT program aims to build students’ literacy skills. The aim of the research reported here was to analyse the effects of the program taught by undergraduate teacher education students (tutors) to middle school students experiencing literacy difficulties (tutees). The results showed students significantly improved their literacy skills, with qualitative data from the tutors acknowledging positive effects on students’ motivation and engagement