Each lesson addresses specific reading skills and is delivered through systematic, intensive and explicit instruction:
Systematic Instruction
A progressive scope and sequence of skill instruction within and across grade levels. This system creates and provides an organized approach to student learning at each grade level.
Intensive Instruction
Carefully scaffolded instruction focused on core skills that offer students an instructional sequence; direct instruction is followed by guided practice and independent practice.
Explicit Instruction
Instruction focused on carefully articulated skills taught directly and reinforced through targeted activities that promote application of the skills.
Program Components
Alphabetic Knowledge and Phonemic Awareness—letter knowledge acquisition and automaticity of this knowledge. Application is made to decodable text to promote fluency of letter knowledge for beginning readers.
Phonics—blending, segmenting and manipulating sounds. Students convert letters to phonemes and blend phonemes into words using word analysis skills that are sequenced from simple to complex. Emphasis is placed on decoding unknown words quickly and accurately in order to improve comprehension and develop reading fluency.
Fluency—passages for each instructional level focus specifically on fluency development. Students repeat oral readings with a focus on reading pace, accuracy and intonation. Activities include initial oral readings by the instructor to model rate and expression, student partner reading and student oral reading for increased fluency.
Vocabulary—word knowledge, structural analysis and context clues.
Comprehension Instruction—accessing prior knowledge, identifying main idea and supporting details, sequencing, story grammar, text features and author’s purpose. A variety of graphic organizers are used at each instructional level.
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