The Principal and the Assistant Principal are trained and serve as the primary dialog substitutes. Group assignments are changed every 6 weeks which allows students to receive instruction from teacher with different strengths and interests. Students receive phonic instruction and review as needed through 5th grade. Because they are grouped at their proper instructional level, a fifth grader needing instruction on a third grade level will get it. An unexpected bonus of Formula Three has been the positive things that have happened for students new in our school.
Most students jump one to three reading levels once they understand how the code works.
This has been a wonderful way for us to get to know students and since nothing builds more positive feelings than success, school becomes a rewarding place to be. When we reviewed the twenty-four conclusions on effective reading by Marilyn Adams last year we found that the Formula Three Program incorporated almost all of these suggested practices. The Formula Three Program has helped us understand these processes and the results suggest that these practices do work well for ail students. We constantly need to monitor, evaluate and adjust everything we do to make sure that we achieve the desired results. The Formula Three program has been no exception.