This leaves many students unable to read the longer words necessary to succeed as they move into more challenging content areas, such as social studies, history, science, and health studies. When word recognition skills and fluency are low, students are unlikely to read for enjoyment or to complete their assignments. Over time, these students fall farther and farther behind, placing them at increased risk for school failure. Until now, few programs have addressed the need to help students reverse this downward spiral. It also works in a variety of settings, including general education, remedial reading, special education, summer school, specialized tutoring programs, and more.
Students also practice reading multisyllabic words in sentences and in passages.
The comprehensive Teacher's Guide clearly outlines the program with 20 teacher-directed lessons and scripts to save you preparation time. Fourth through sixth grade students in the project increased reading levels by an average of two years in a three-month period. The improvement of students over a three-month period was nothing less than phenomenal. My students reported that after 'the program,' they could read things they never could read before, their confidence increased, and they started reading for pleasure. It has been very effective and well received by our teachers.