The Early Reading Intervention Program at Lincoln School is for first, second, and third grade students. It is funded by Chapter I and District 97 monies. Students are selected for the program on the basis of teacher recommendation,formal, and informal testing. Students in small groups of 2 or 3 work with reading personnel in a modified Reading Recovery format.
Students work on oral reading, phonics instruction and writing skills.
Parents are encouraged to play a role in their child's education as part of the Lincoln program. There are a minimum of two workshops per year at which parents receive instructional demonstrations of how to work with students at home. In addition, the students take reinforcement exercises home to be completed with their parents every day they attend the program. Motiviational activities to increase reading at home are used. At the end of the year a celebration of the progress in reading takes place for all the Early Reading Intervention children and their parents.