Wednesday 14 May 2014

Reading Software and Reading Websites Treasure Hunt

Reading Software and Website Treasure Hunt

·         Success for All
Provides extensive school staff training and materials focused on cooperative learning, phonics, and a rapid pace of instruction. Also provides tutoring to struggling children, mostly first graders.
At the Success for All Foundation, our goal is to help all students achieve at the highest levels—not just children who come to school well fed, well rested, and ready to learn, but everyone, at all levels, whatever it takes.
 We believe all students deserve an education that will challenge, inspire, and prepare them for a better future. Our top priority is the education of disadvantaged and at-risk students in pre-K through grade eight. We use research to design programs and services that help schools better meet the needs of all their students. Every child can learn. We help schools ensure that they do.
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  Direct Instruction/ Corrective Reading
A highly structured, phonetic approach to reading instruction that emphasizes phonics, a step-by-step instructional approach, and direct teaching of comprehension skills, as well as extensive professional development and follow-up.
Website: www.nifdi.org 
Welcome to the National Institute for Direct Instruction
 The National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) is the world's foremost Direct Instruction (DI) support provider. This website provides information and resources for administrators, teachers and parents to help them maximize student achievement through DI

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Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS)
A technique in which children work in pairs, taking turns as teacher and learner, to learn a structured sequence of literacy skills, such as phonemic awareness, phonics, sound blending, passage reading, and story retelling.
PALS is a version of classwide peer tutoring. PALS combines proven instructional principles and practices and peer mediation so that research-based reading and math activities are effective, feasible, and enjoyable. Teachers identify which children require help on specific skills and who the most appropriate children are to help other children learn those skills. Using this information, teachers pair students in the class, so that partners work simultaneously and productively on different activities that address the problems they are experiencing. Pairs are changed regularly and all students have the opportunity to be "coaches" and "players" over a period of time as students work on a variety of skills.


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Reading Recovery
Provides the lowest achieving readers (lowest 20%) in first grade with supplemental tutoring in addition to their regular reading classes.
Our Vision
We ensure that children who struggle in learning to read and write gain the skills for a literate and productive future.
Our Mission
We achieve reading and writing success for children through partnerships that foster:
Reading Recovery in English, Spanish, or French as an essential intervention within a comprehensive literacy system
Teaching of children that is expert and responsive
Professional development for teachers that is specialized and continuous
Ongoing development of knowledge and practice based on research, data, and the theoretical framework that has underpinned Reading Recovery since its founding
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Targeted Reading Intervention
A one-to-one tutoring model in which classroom teachers work individually with struggling readers in kindergarten or first grade for 15 minutes a day. The 1-1 sessions focus on re-reading for fluency (2 min.), word work (6 min.), and guided oral reading (7 min.).
The Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI) is a professional development intervention designed for elementary students who require additional reading instruction and their classroom teachers. Via remote webcam, trained coaches with reading expertise provide one-on-one, ongoing support to build capacity in reading instruction with teachers.
The TRI helps teachers build capacity by:
Learning and using efficient instructional strategies for early reading development
Developing skills in matching instruction to assessment

Applying their learning for the benefit of targeted readers

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