Reading Street

Evangel is committed to assist our students to become successful readers. To achieve this goal Kindergarten through fifth grade are using a research-based reading program called Reading Street. Reading Street provides instruction in the five core areas of reading instruction; phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills and strategies. Students with their classroom teacher attend the reading lab daily where they‘re grouped to receive differential instruction. Students are taught Reading Strategies that focus on:

 Summarizing what you have read.

 Predicting what will happen in the story.

 Clarifying and monitoring what you are reading.

 Asking questions while reading.

 Visualizing what you have read in your mind.

 Making connections with your reading.

 Decoding and trying to figure out difficult words

Our students are learning through varies types of genre in the weekly reading selection and leveled readers that good readers use different strategies before, during, and after reading. As they learn to apply these strategies they will be more engaged in what they read and eventually become successful lifelong readers.

Current research in reading reveals three important considerations for parents and teachers:

1. Children who read, and read widely, become better readers.

2. Reading and writing are complementary skills.

3. Parents are important to children both as role models and as supporters of their efforts

Mrs. Jimenez

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Topics: 0 Kindergarden, 1 First Grade, 2 Second Grade, 3 Third grade, 4 Fourth grade, 5 Fifth Grade
Date: Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 10:38 am