Power Reading
Recent ActivityInstructor: Rhonda Spencer
Power Reading Program
- The Power Reading Program identifies and works with students who are reading below grade level.
- They may be having difficulty with reading skills such as: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and/or reading fluency.
- We work with small groups of students in the Power Reading Room four or five days a week.
- We also go into the regular classroom during flex reading group time and assist with instruction with individual and small groups of students
- Lesson plans are individualized and very prescriptive.
- Multisensory and research based reading strategies are used in the Power Reading Room.
- Ongoing assessment is done to measure growth and update individual student needs.
- Parents sign a permission slip to place their child in the Power Reading Program.
- We send home a Progress Report at the end of each quarter to indicate the reading skills that the student has been I = Introduced, W = continues to Work on or M = has Mastered.
- We send home samples of completed work and a parent newsletter at the end of each quarter in a large envelope.
- Parents keep the Progress Report and completed work.
- Parents sign the back of the large envelope and return to school to indicate you have seen the Progress Report and papers.
- Parents are encouraged to call, e-mail or schedule parent teacher conferences .
- A student is in Power Reading as long as needed.
- If the classroom teacher, Power Reading teacher and parent agree that the child is reading on grade level, they will be dismissed from the Power Reading Program and placed on monitor status.
- The Power Reading teacher assists all grade levels in the regular classroom when that grade level is doing Reading Intervention block of time.
- Every grade level will be either doing a Math or Reading Intervention block.
- Power Reading Teachers assist regular classroom teachers with assessing individual student reading levels.
- Regular classroom work samples, reading pre and post assessments, achievement tests and Individualized Reading Inventories are used to help determine a student's current reading levels.
Reading Connection
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Reading Rate- Words Correct per Minute "Targets" by grade level
