Language and Reading Research Consortium (LAARC)

This five-year project entitled, The Language and Reading Research Consortium, was awarded to the Ohio State University (OSU) leading a university consortium. Dr. Laura Justice is the OSU principle investigator. The grant compromised of a multidisciplinary set of studies designed to increase fundamental understanding of the role of lower-and higher-level language skills in listening and reading comprehension and knowledge of how to effectively increase language knowledge and comprehension skills in preschool through grade three through systematic classroom-based interventions. Project activities spanned four states and involved more than 3,000 preschool to third grade children in more than 300 classrooms

Collaborators: Arizona State University, Florida State University, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, The Ohio State University, Lancaster University, University of Kansas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

LARRC is pleased to make the curriculum supplement materials available to download for free!

One important research goal of LARRC was to develop and test a curriculum supplement designed to increase language knowledge and the future reading comprehension skills of children enrolled in preschool through third grade. The Let’s Know! curriculum supplement for grades PK-3 and the bilingual ¡Vamos a Aprender! curriculum supplement for preschool uses core content such as science texts and story books as a base for developing foundational oral language and listening comprehension skills. The curriculum supplements provide a systematic scope and sequence of instruction organized over one academic year. Example language skills include knowledge of different text-structures, making inferences, vocabulary, and comprehension monitoring.

LARRC Newsletter – Study 1_ASU

LARRC Newsletter – Study 3_ASU

Research Article – Can you Read to Me?

Learn more about LARRC here.