Primetime was a local school and university partnership designed to meet university training needs while providing a focused reading intervention for 3rd-grade children. University students and the local schools received mutual benefits. Data showed improvement in overall reading performance on informal reading inventories and state reading assessment. University students reported satisfaction in partnering with a local school and felt competent in the skills they had learned.
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