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Reading Roots is a 90-minute comprehensive program
that targets the needs of beginning readers. Reading
Roots is a research-based beginning reading program
that has proven its effectiveness in randomized experimental
research. It provides a strong base for successful reading
by providing systematic phonics instruction supported
by decodable stories, as well as 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 they
are receiving the most focused instruction.
Second and third grade non-readers
can be regrouped into Reading Roots classes. This solution
includes all of the elements needed for ensuring success:
teacher manuals, student materials, initial training
for teachers, intensive onsite and telephone coaching,
and tools for monitoring 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. Prediction, clarification,
questioning, summarization, and visualization strategies
are modeled and practiced as they relate to the comprehension
of the text structure, meaning, or story elements of
the STaR books.
Structured Language Links activities, which are based
upon the corresponding Shared Story and STaR story in
the lesson, stimulate children’s oral language
and cognitive development as they learn effective ways
to communicate ideas, feelings, and experiences. Students
use higher-level thinking skills as they engage in dissusion
of authentic literature.
On the third day of every 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 materials include puppets, colorful picture
cards, helpful strategy cue cards, engaging videos,
and more, making this program not only research-based
and proven, but fun!
- A complete and easy to use 4-volume
set of teacher’s manuals provides detailed daily
lesson guides for phonics, student story reading,
teacher read-alouds, oral language, and writing lesson
activities. Materials such as letter cards, picture
cards, word cards, puppets, and read-aloud books are
all provided. Award-winning video segments designed
for teachers to show during the lesson are available
as an option.
- Student materials include
phonics practice and consumable reading books, colorful
sound cue strips, strategy cue cards, celebration
flyers, homework, assessments, and parent notes. These
provide many opportunities to help develop students’
confidence as readers.
Use the following link(s) to browse sample lessons from
Reading Roots.
Reading
Roots - sample lesson
Reading
Roots - sample shared story
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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. Your school receives:
- An initial telephone meeting two
to three weeks after training to answer questions
and troubleshoot.
- Three onsite support visits over
the year at each school to observe students’
reading in classrooms, meet with teachers and administrators,
review data on student progress, and set new goals.
- Follow-up video training and telephone
meeting training on the advanced level of the Reading
Roots program in the Fall.
- Three follow-up telephone meetings
with each school. Telephone meetings are designed
to provide teachers with further training and support
for their implementation of the program. The consultations
will be conducted quarterly to answer teachers’
questions and help program facilitators and principals
with troubleshooting, goal setting, and assessment
issues.
- Unlimited, informal telephone support
for all staff members.
Do you want 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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FastTrack
Phonics
Story
Telling and Retelling (STaR)
