1st Grade Reading Success

Archive for October, 2010

Nemours BrightStart!, which was founded in 2005, creates innovative programs to support early identification and treatment for young children at risk for reading failure. The Nemours BrightStart! team has pioneered an approach to recognize children at risk for reading problems as early as pre-kindergarten. This unique program joins together schools, teachers, and families to ensure that every child is given the chance to become a successful reader. Nemours BrightStart! is dedicated to every child’s reading success, especially those at risk for reading problems, and strives to give families and teachers the knowledge and tools they need to prepare every child for reading success.

Not only is Lexia Reading an innovative technology tool to deliver quality reading instruction, but it will allow your instruction to be data-driven and student-centric by providing real-time assessment without the need to interrupt the learning process. Lexia’s new progress monitoring reports provide you with powerful measures of your students’ skill levels so you can adjust your instruction based on each student’s needs, without stopping the flow of learning to test and re-test. We call this “Assessment without Testing”. Lexia Reading is fully aligned with the US DoE’s 2010 National Educational Technology Plan, and is proven with multiple research studies which are published in peer-reviewed journals. The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) and What Works Clearing House both give Lexia Reading strong scores. And students find Lexia Reading engaging and motivating as they move through the levels to reading skills success.

Why do so many students fall behind in reading? Research findings point to the importance of print exposure and reading fluency for building the reading skills, verbal skills, and world knowledge that help children succeed in school. Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding, investigated how much time fifth graders spent reading books outside of school. They found quite a range: children at the 10th percentile averaged only one tenth of a minute per day, while children at the 90th percentile averaged more than 20 minutes per day — 200 times as much — and the students who read more made greater gains in reading comprehension. Adding just 10 minutes of book reading time each day would move a student from the 30th percentile to somewhere above the 70th percentile in words read per year. Reading Assistant™ software is a tool that helps teachers provide well structured guided oral reading practice to help their students gain fluency and increase print exposure during the school day. Learn more about Reading Assistant software: www.scilearn.com Read the full blog post: www.scilearn.com

Addressing the Challenges of Reading Informational Text” Explore some of the difficulties students may have with reading and understanding informational text as well as instructional strategies to support student success with informational text in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Fostering Student Success on the OAT-Reading, Grades 57: Reading and Writing Informational Text webcast series provides classroom teachers, literacy and curriculum specialists, and other leaders in English language arts education with instructional strategies for supporting student success with informational texts in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Go to the ORC site (ohiorc.org to watch webcasts that present 45-minute panel discussions exploring the teaching-learning implications sample OAT items, student responses, and ELA content standards suggest in relation to the reading and writing of informational text. Use the webcast viewing guides to initiate or continue professional dialogue and instructional planning on enhancing literacy in your school or district. In addition, take advantage of the webcasts’ mini-collections—small sets of ORC resources containing additional instructional examples, lesson ideas, and supplemental resource materials. Lastly, use the reference bibliographies provided for further information and reflection on effective teaching with informational texts.

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