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Reading Roots is a ninety-minute comprehensive program that targets the needs of beginning readers. Reading Roots is a research-based beginning-reading program that provides a strong base for successful reading through systematic phonics instruction supported by decodable stories, along with instruction in fluency and comprehension. Reading Roots also fosters students’
love of reading by providing rich literature experiences,
extensive oral-language development, and thematically focused
writing instruction. These objectives are embedded in
a fast-paced, engaging, and highly effective instructional
process. Students are assessed and regrouped according
to their reading level every quarter to ensure that they
receive the most focused instruction.
Second and third grade nonreaders
can be regrouped into Reading Roots classes. This solution
includes all the elements needed to ensure success:
teacher manuals, student materials, initial training
for teachers, intensive onsite and telephone coaching,
and tools to monitor students progress.
Reading Roots lessons feature the following parts:
Colorful mnemonic pictures are integrated with alliterative
phrases, sounds, and letter cues to provide phonemic
awareness and phonics instruction in six skills: letter-sound
correspondence, auditory sound blending, word-level
blending, writing sounds, auditory segmentation of sounds,
and sound spelling. Entertaining puppets, chants, and
games add fun to the fast-paced systematic instruction
that is designed to review and introduce sounds and
their written representations. Teachers decide to review
or accelerate lessons based on informal monitoring and
diagnostic assessments.
Colorful Shared Story books invite students to use their
developing decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills.
The teacher presents new vocabulary words, and then
guides students to read the story with their partners.
Students then discuss their comprehension as they become
confident, enthusiastic readers.
A collection of forty-eight books, both fictional and
expository text, are read interactively with students
as part of the Reading Roots lessons. Predictiing, clarifying,
questioning, summarizing, and visualizing strategies
are modeled and practiced as they relate to the comprehension
of the text structure, meaning, or story elements of
the STaR books.
Every day of the Reading Roots lesson, students
are guided through a writing activity that is related
to the theme of both the Shared Story and STaR books.
Students use the writing process as they think, speak,
and work collaboratively with others.
Reading Roots 4th Edition-Interactive provides schools with the same student and teacher materials as the Reading Roots paper version, but it also includes an additional CD with interactive lessons for use with a whiteboard.
- All media traditionally used with the Roots program (letter key cards, picture cards, word cards, animations, puppet skits, word plays, etc.) are tightly integrated into lessons so they can be managed and presented by the teacher simply by tapping and dragging on the whiteboard.
- Teachers have the ability to independently choose a lesson from the CD to reteach a reading lesson.
- New computer activities have been developed, such as Break-It-Down, Stretch and Read, and Quick Erase , to increase student motivation and engagement.
- Brief professional-development clips that model each lesson segment are provided.
- Reading Roots-Interactive will work with any interactive whiteboard systems.
- Teachers have access to online resource centers that include resource libraries, actively moderated forums, success stories, and frequently asked questions.
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Your SFAF Coach builds a partnership
with your school through training sessions, onsite coaching,
scheduled telephone meetings, quarterly progress reports,
and informal telephone support. The professional development
provided by SFAF staff is designed to support school
leaders and teachers as they make substantial changes
in their approach to classroom instruction.
The two-day initial training prepares teachers to implement
Reading Roots. The training focuses on:
- phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding,
word recognition strategies, fluency, and comprehension.
- elements of the lessons that provide
engaging images, routines, and the practice needed
to ensure success for each student.
- tools for assessing students’
progress and adapting lessons based on assessments
to meet individual and group needs.
- cooperative learning strategies
that provide the practice and repetition beginning
readers need.
- support for administrators to monitor
and improve program administration.
- a one-day training for school leaders
in assessment tools and regrouping strategies. In
addition, there is training in program monitoring
and coaching.
Goal-focused achievement planning sets the stage for
success. School leaders and your SFAF coach develop
specific goals and monitor student progress.
- every quarter, Reading Roots teachers,
schools leaders, and your SFAF coach review student
progress data.
- goals and interventions for the
following quarter are planned based on the data.
As the year progresses, you will have a variety of ways
to work with your SFAF coach to review your progress
and refine your goals.
To learn more about Reading Roots? Please
call and talk to one of our staff members at 1-800-548-4998,
ext.2372, or fill out the information
request form online. We
can provide documentation to demonstrate how Success
for All programs are aligned with your state's educational
objectives.
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Story
Telling and Retelling (STaR)
