1. What Research Has to Say about Reading Instruction Allington, Chapter 12

2. List of current interventions/support plans in place at CLK Elementary to diagnose and remediate reading problems Adding a CLK Daycare and preschool program in 2012-2013, we are going to strengthen the link between preschool and the elementary school. The link between elementary and middle school is not well defined. For example, we do the LA folders K-5 but it stops there. In the elementary, we have DRA and Dibels and the Middle School uses SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) and Read 180. We are looking very closely at dropping DRA and adding SRI to help bridge the transition and add consistency. Tutoring is available through our Great Explorations program and is offered three days a week as well as a 4 week summer program.

3. Read Naturally "My students really enjoy this program. We have seen students become more fluent. Students have increased their ability to comprehend. The children's faces simply light up as they watch the computer graph their cold and hot time readings. They are truly amazed at their growth!" – Chantel, Classroom Teacher, Macomb, MI

4. I've DIBEL'd, Now What? Targeted specifically to DIBELS users, this resource contains strategies that work with any core reading or intervention program. Using this book, teachers can learn to analyze DIBELS data, organize effective student groups, link strategies to student needs, design focused interventions, and much more.

5. Explode the Code Explode The Code provides a sequential, systematic approach to phonics in which students blend sounds to build vocabulary and read words, phrases, sentences, and stories.

6. REWARDS REWARDS is a specialized reading and writing program designed to teach intermediate and secondary students a flexible strategy for decoding long words and to increase their oral and silent reading fluency.

7. Florida Center for Reading Research The Center’s Four Part Mission: To conduct basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that will contribute to the scientific knowledge of reading and benefit students in Florida and throughout the nation. To disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction and assessment for children in pre-school through 12th grade. To conduct applied research that will have an immediate impact on policy and practices related to literacy instruction in Florida. To provide technical assistance to Florida’s schools and to the State Department of Education for the improvement of literacy outcomes in students from pre-K through 12th grade.

8. Reading A-Z Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments.

9. The Six-Minute Solution The Six-Minute Solution builds students’ reading fluency— essential for text comprehension—and is valuable as a complement to any reading curriculum or as an intervention program. This easy to implement resource quickly builds fluency through interactive, peer-to-peer repeated readings of high-interest, targeted readability passages.

10. Strategies/Interventions Read Naturally Tons of iPad apps – meet the vowels, I’ve dibeled, now what! – copies for each grade level (shows how to implement RTI) Explode the code Beyond the code Structured Linguistics (phonics based, spelling rules-encoding, decoding-sounding out words Rewards – best for 4th & 5th Phonics for Reading (younger kids) Florida Center for Reading Research – plethora of activities to aid in teaching phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension (free online) Houghton Mifflin, supplementary (Early Success, Soar to Success, Vocabulary Readers, Leveled Readers) Fry Phrases DOLCH word lists Reader’s Theaters Flooding (grade 5) – small groups with lots of support, groups based on data collected through the school year and groups change in response to the data Small group instruction (Title I, Special Education) Reading A-Z website Reading comprehension resource workbooks 4 staff members trained in VSA (visual screening assessment) The Six-Minute Solution – a reading fluency program K-2 --- have the books, but need to implement in the fall