Students are taught through direct instruction one lesson per 50-minute period. Teacher-directed work and independent student application. Lessons are scripted to ensure uniform wording, clear examples, and proper pacing of one lesson per period. Skills are taught with many examples. Provides detailed data on student performance.
Students can see their own progress through reading checkouts and by keeping error data.
Students earn points for performance on each part of the daily lesson. S tudents are given practice reading a variety of passages, both narrative and expository. A Literacy Intervention Curriculum Currently being implemented at four middle schools and three high schools. Includes reading, spelling, composition, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar usage and language. Explicit systematic phonics instruction is used with decodable text.