What kind of results can you expect from a Total Reading Pilot Program ? In two such programs in a recent school year two first grades of children from a very low socio-economic neighborhood scored at grade level (a first in this location) on the CAT Reading Achievement Test; and three second grade classrooms, in a medium economic area, came up from 62% below grade level to 81% at or above grade level on the Stanford Reading Diagnostic. Teachers using Six Steps to Literacy consistently report gains by Intermediate students of two to four years in reading.
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The Total Reading Pilot Program For Grades One And Two
Four months
of
intensive, systematic, and explicit phonics
with
Total Reading multisensory decoding
$13.00 per student
After training at an approved Total Reading In-service
or Total Reading Workshop, where the teacher receives the Primary Grade Pilot Program Teaching Set. |
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The Total Reading
Pilot Program For
Grades Four - Eight
Six months of
intensive, systematic, and explicit phonics
with Total Reading multisensory decoding
$6.50 per student
After training at an approved Total Reading In-service
or Total Reading
Workshop, where the teacher receives the
Six Steps to Literacy Teaching Set.
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| Why Is Total Reading More Effective in Teaching All Primary
Grade Children And Remedial Intermediate Students to Read, Write,
and Spell? |
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Total Reading confirms
current research that shows that skillful readers sound out words
from left to right |
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Total Reading teaches
decoding quickly, so that children can start reading real
literature sooner. |
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Total Reading teaches
spelling and decoding together and creative writing within the
structure of basic skills. |
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Total Reading's
multisensory approach prevents reversals and word skipping common to
language deficient readers. |
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Total Reading develops
grade level English vocabulary for ELL students as they rapidly
learn to decode. |
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Total Reading is the only K - 3
phonics/basic skills program that is correlated with the major
reading series to make anthologies 100%
decodable/readable. |
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- Level I
- Phonemic Awareness - alphabet, vowel code, oral
blending, Read Aloud comprehension and creativity
- Level II
- Explicit Phonetic Decoding - dictation, decodable
reading, creative sentence construction and story
making.
- Levels III and IV
- Reading for Comprehension - reading core anthologies and
library/trade books with comprehension questions, spelling
through dictation, creative writing with proofreading,
graded basic skills lessons
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Total
Reading's Six
Steps to Literacy for grades 4 - 8 is a remedial
reading/language arts program that works!. |
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- Step One
- Phonemic Perception
- Step Two
- Decoding Words
- Step Three
- Reading and Writing Sentences
- Step Four
- Reading and Writing Paragraphs
- Steps Five and Six
- Reading Books with Six Steps to Literacy
Comprehension
Language Arts with emphasis on basic
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At the initial college credit workshop the consultant will explain how to participate in the Total Reading Pilot Program, for which a second unit of college credit is available.
The purpose of the Total Reading Pilot Program is to introduce teachers to the Total Reading multisensory phonetic decoding. Purchased materials include Level II Cards and Level II Reading. Provided materials to copy (for Pilot only) include the Writing Worksheets for Level I and one participant-selected Reading Series Correlation.
The teacher must be trained at an approved Total Reading Workshop or In-service. At the workshop the teacher receives a Pilot Program Teaching Set, which include the Levels I - III Teacher Manual, Teacher Sound Cards, Teacher Word Cards, and the Cassette of Sounds and Dictation.
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Registration forms for the Total
Reading Pilot Program College Credit will be available at the workshop.
Notification of two units of college credit will be sent upon completion
of requirements and payment of $92 to Fresno Pacific
University.
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