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Title I Home Title I Goals Title I Reading Programs Parent's Page Websites for Kids Dates to Remember Important Documents > West School Newsletters Search   Title I Instructional Programs used at West Elementary Reading Mastery- Reading Mastery is used for many of our Kindergarten students.  This is a comprehensive reading program that helps students develop into fluent, independent, and highly skilled readers. New concepts and skills are taught in small groups by the teacher through simple steps that ensure success. Students have ample opportunity to practice all concepts and skills so they achieve mastery and develop efficient strategies for reading. Regular assessments and continuous monitoring of progress make it easy to quickly identify students needing specialized instruction. Read Naturally- Read Naturally is used for 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students who are focusing on Oral Reading Fluency. Read Naturally encourages students toward fluency and builds comprehension skills. Students read and reread nonfiction passages multiple times, with each reading increasing their words read per minute while reducing errors. Also, Read Naturally identifies areas of weakness in comprehension skills. Read Naturally works on vocabulary, fluency and comprehension while building confidence through repeated successes. It is used with students after they have developed a strong base in phonics, decoding and blending. Soar to Success- Soar to Success is used with our 3rd and 4th grade students.  Soar to Success is a reading intervention program designed to help students accelerate reading growth through the use of authentic literature and reciprocal teaching strategies. Students learn to use four important comprehension strategies in the reciprocal teaching process in order to build understanding of text: predict, question, clarify, and summarize. Predict-Students make predictions about the story elements (setting, characters, problem, events and solution) in fiction stories or about facts and information that will be learned in nonfiction text. Question- Students ask questions to set a purpose or to check understanding of text. Clarify- Students discuss the meaning of unknown words and the meaning of confusing passages in the text. Summarize -Students paraphrase the key points or events from a text. Students work on having a well organized summary. The reciprocal teaching strategies help to provide a systematic thought process for students to use before, during and after reading to guide their thinking and build comprehension. Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)-    Leveled Literacy Intervention is a systematically designed, sequenced, short, supplementary lesson that builds on high-quality classroom instruction. It includes reading, phonics, and writing about reading. LLI offers intensive instruction to help struggling readers develop proficient systems of strategic actions for reading.  This program is used with our 1st and 2nd grade students. Wilson Reading System- Wilson Reading System is a highly-structured reading program that directly teaches the structure of the language to students who have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies, or who may require multisensory language instruction.   Some of the highlights of this reading program are: *Follows a ten-part lesson plan that addresses decoding, encoding, oral reading fluency, and comprehension in a sensible and logical fashion. * Aids teachers by making all instruction multisensory and interactive. * Uses a unique “sound tapping” system. *Has one of the most extensive collections of controlled and decodable text (word lists, sentences, stories) for students beyond the primary grades. Top of Page