Grade 1 reading tutors 2009-2010: Mrs. Falco, Mrs. Gargas, Mrs. Mills, Mrs.
Thorburn, Miss Wallace
First graders in the STAR reading program receive Project Read as their
reading intervention. The Project Read curriculum gives detailed lessons
involving student participation with multi-sensory activities, student
practice exercises, and reading material. The Lesson plans teach through
sentence dictation, reading comprehension activities, writing, spelling, and
oral reading. The lessons are designed to accelerate struggling readers'
learning in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency
and text comprehension. By mid year some first graders will receive
additional phonics practice with a computer based program published by Lexia
Learning.
Later in the year some students who have developed a sufficient reading
vocabulary may move to another reading intervention program called Read
Naturally. This program is a strategic reading intervention designed to
support those students who need to improve their vocabulary, reading fluency
and reading comprehension.
