Sample

This study included 34 elementary schools in the city of Beer Sheva. A total of 247 first to third grade teachers participated in the study. All the students in the second and third grades (about 3,000 students) grade and again at the end of third grade. participated in the screening stage, and about 600 students— either identified as using the screening data of reading fluency or were identified by their teachers as having reading difficulties—participated in the OR intervention program in small groups. Teachers and children were followed at three time points, that is, at the beginning and end of second