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Rocket Reading is a highly successful parent tutor program for
students
experiencing difficulties with reading and writing.
This
program focuses on the explicit teaching of word recognition,
phonemic awareness, guided writing and reading texts at easy and
instructional levels. Students
are taught strategies to help them read and spell unfamiliar
words.
A
key component of the program is the involvement of trained and
committed parent
tutors and teachers.
Each
child on the program
 has
three half-hour
lessons per week. Each
lesson is conducted on an individual basis.
The
three lessons each week may be given by a different tutor during
the course of a week. There is a small home component of the
program that includes reconstructing a cut‑up story and reading
a familiar book.
Students
leave the program when their reading level has improved to the
satisfaction of
the school's Learning Support Team.
To
date we have successfully helped many children progress to grade
level and continue to progress after
participating in
the program. |
