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Monthly Reading Challenge Each month I challenge the students in my program to read as much as possible! I set a group goal
for the month and if the students reach our goal then we celebrate in my classroom with a party! It's my way of rewarding
the efforts of the students. However, in order to participate in our celebrations each month, I require that each student
contribute to reaching that goal. For that reason, if a student doesn't turn in any logs for the challenge month, he/she
will not be able to participate in the party! So get out there and READ!! If you need help picking out a book, please come
see me. I want my students reading quality books at their personal reading level!!!
Rewards:
REWARDS is a specialized reading program designed to teach intermediate students a flexible strategy for decoding long words
and to increase their oral and silent reading fluency. The letters stand for:
R- Reading
E-Excellence
W-Word
A-Attack and
R-Rate
D-Development
S-Strategies
Students who benifit from this program lack word identification skills and are generally slower at oral reading than their
peers.
Comprehension Activities:
These activities provide students with an approach they can use to lean all of the skills important to a particular subject.
To help your students learn to comprehend what they read, this program offers an interesting fact-or-fiction based story on
each page. Following each story are activites that will help students practice such skills as locating the main idea, reading
for details, putting events in order, etc.
Read Naturally:
Read Naturally is a supplemental reading program designed to enable students to improve reading fluency. It is a research-based
program that enables students to become fluent readers. It has three components: teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress
monitoring. It is based on several research-based theories including the following:
Students become good readers by reading.
Reading along with a more proficient reader improves word recognition and reading fluency.
Reading a passage several times improves fluency.
Self-monitoring of progress improves reading achievement.
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