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Early Reading
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Typical Student:
Preschool children with a language age of 4.0 or higher,
students in grades K through 5th grade and ESL students
in grades K through 6th grade who need language development.
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Students will learn:
- Commonly used vocabulary (object names, actions,
prepositions, plurals, pronouns and comparatives)
- How to answer questions
- Different sentence forms
- How to describe objects in different ways
- To follow instructions
- Words such as first, next, between, who, what,
when and where
- Important information about the world around them
(i.e., days of the week, months, seasons)
- An understanding of hard-to-teach concepts such
as "some/all/none" and "same/different"
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leave the program knowing how to think, group objects
in different ways to see the logic behind rules and
to know when and how to apply these rules. |
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Typical Student:
K through 2nd grade students who are non-readers or
have poorly developed decoding skills.
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Students will learn:
- To identify letters and letter sounds
- Phonemic-awareness activities, including segmenting
and blending
- Decoding strategies
- To read stories with decodable text
- Comprehension activities
- To spell words and write dictated sentences
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Students leave Early Reading A with a mastery of
about 700 words and a solid foundation on which to
build fluency and comprehension in reading.
Students leave Early Reading B with a mastery of
about 2000 words and are ready to enter a 3rd grade
reading program.
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Typical Student:
K through 1st grade students who have letter name
knowledge or 2nd through 4th grade students who are
non-readers or have poorly developed decoding skills.
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Students will learn:
Students will learn all the skills
taught in Early Reading A and Early Reading B, in
an accelerated program called Fast Track.
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Typical Student:
2nd through 4th grade students who are fluent readers
and ready to make the transition from fiction to nonfiction
reading strategies.
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Students will learn:
- Vocabulary and thinking skills
- To read nonfiction passages that build background
knowledge
- To interpret maps, graphs and timelines
- Special project lessons (i.e., making maps and
charts)
- Writing and spelling skills
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leave Early Reading Fast Track C-D as critical readers
who can read for information as well as for pleasure.
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Fundamentals of Reading
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Typical Student:
3rd grade through adult learners who are non-readers.
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Students will learn:
- To identify letters as sounds
- How to blend sounds into words
- How to sound out and identify written words
- Rhyming
- Spelling activities, including dictation
- Simple story reading
- Worksheet activities (i.e., matching and word
completion)
- Comprehension activities
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Students leave Fundamentals of Reading A able to
read basic sentences and simple stories primarily
composed of regularly spelled words at the rate of
about 60 words per minute. They should have a 90%
accuracy rate on words that confuse typical poor readers.
Students' faster reading rates make comprehension
activities more feasible.
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Typical Student:
4th grade through adults learners who misidentify,
omit, reverse and substitute words. These learners
guess on the basis of context and pictures, do not
read at an adequate rate and tend to confuse words
with similar spellings.
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Students will learn:
- To read and discriminate words containing long
and short vowel sounds for a, e, i, and o
- To read words with sound combinations
- Pattern drills that demonstrate consistent phoenetic
relationships (i.e., big, bag, beg, bug)
- Story reading with increasing length and rate
criterion
- Story reading that focuses on reversal (b-d) problems,
commonly confused words and longer sentences
- To answer oral literal and inferential comprehension
questions
- To write answers to various kinds of written story
questions
- How to sequence story events
- To follow written directions
- Workbook exercises on word attack and comprehension
skills
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Students will leave Fundamentals of Reading B1 reading
90 words a minute and Fundamentals of Reading B2 reading
120 words a minute. Students will have greatly improved
reading, fluency, speed and accuracy.
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Typical Student:
4th grade through adult learners who possess fair
reading skills, but who are not fluent readers and
who tend to make word identification errors. These
learners have mastered the basic reading skills, but
have trouble with multisyllablic words and typical
textbook material.
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Students will learn:
- A review of words containing sound combinations
- The meanings of more than 500 vocabulary words
- Affixes (i.e., ex, ly, un, re, dis, pre, tri,
sub, less, ness, able)
- To read selections containing specific information
on a particular topic
- To read fictional selections
- To read selections containing a high percentage
of new words
- To read additional expository selections from
magazines, newspapers and similar sources
- Writing answers to both literal and inferential
comprehension questions
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Students will leave Fundamentals of Reading C reading
an average of 130 words per minute with an accuracy
of 98%. Students can read materials with a wide range
of syntax, vocabulary, format and content. They can
learn new information and apply it after one reading.
These students now have confidence; they can read
a wide variety of materials with fluency and understanding.
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