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INTRODUCTION TO Ready-Set-Teach
RST-001
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Teaching Reading:
The Great Debate
RST-002
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Inportant Reading Fundamentals
RST-003
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Basic
Reading Skills
RST-004
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How To
Get Great Results
RST-005
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RST/001:
INTRODUCTION: Program Philosophy and Features
Today,
more and more families are opting for alternative education environments.
Home teaching, tutoring groups, peer-tutoring, charter schools, and
innovative practices within traditional classroom environments are
challenging teaching methods which have dominated the education community
for nearly a century. Many children, some estimates as high as fifty
percent, need additional assistance (outside of the traditional classroom)
in mastering state standards and preparing for high-stakes standardized
tests. This is true across the board, and
especially true in the critical areas of literacy and reading.
Everyone
teaching students to read has been looking for classroom-tested techniques
to expand their inventory of tried-and-true methods and tools in their
“teacher’s toolbox.”
The
Reading Champs program is not intended to replace established school
curricula or productive reading programs. It offers a supplement for
non-professional “coaches”--parents, tutors, classroom teaching
assistants and hard-working teachers an “Smart
Start” how-to primer for helping all students to become better
readers. It also helps connect the technical language of the school with
real-life, at home, teaching and tutoring.
The
hardest part of learning how to coach a subject as broad as literacy, or
even the less-broad subject of “reading,” is
knowing where to start. The wisest sages have repeatedly given us
the only real answer: “Start at the very beginning …”
This
is the plan for Rita Wirtz’ Reading Champs Ready-Set-TEACH!
(RST) Library and Common Sense Mini Lesson (CSML) Instructional Skill Handbooks. We start at the beginning and
move upward; following easy-to-understand, step-by-step research-proven
reading activities for students and coaches to do together in one-hour
units or “chunks” of 20 minutes or less.
However,
most important, this series is prepared and written to empower those
working with frustrated, struggling, and often failing, readers. Teachers and
teaching assistants will find new ideas to fill learning gaps or validate
and strengthen what is already working well. To ensure that no child is
left behind, it is important to foster a seamless, coordinated effort to
reach and teach children at home as well as at school. As parents are the
child’s first and best teaching partners, well-informed parents can
assist with timely and appropriate intervention. With all of the
educational stakeholders on the same page, teachers can share these
mini-lessons with families for helpful and reinforcing at-home tutoring.
PROGRAM FEATURES
- Most Reading Champs materials are provided
with individual Flesch-Kincaid Reading Levels.
- Each handbook is provided as a
download-and-print (.pdf) file. Save this
file to your computer disk for future use. Make additional copies as
needed. Handbooks are also available as individually printed items at
a slightly higher cost.
- .Pdf file
formats provide access to multiple, always clean originals. E-Books save
money by being non-taxable and requiring no shipping and handling
costs.
- A classroom copyright release for free
distribution to students and assistants is provided with this
handbook. Copying and/or offering
this handbook for sale or resale is prohibited without separate
specific authorization.
- RST
and CSML materials are available as single handbooks, in topical
sections, and in complete libraries to meet the unique needs of each
client.
- Like
IVE Focus Texts, Reading Champs RST and CSML materials never go out of
date. As new information comes available, the master documents are
updated and provided to members by e-book links listed in the Reading
Champs Coach's monthly newsletter.
Common Sense
Mini-lessons (CSML) for Reading Champs
NOTE: All
session titles (below) displaying a link and date are available for
purchase as .pdf downloads.
The preceding table provides an index to individual instructional
Mini-lessons to assist reading champs coaches and
students in home-school and other self-directed instructional programs
handle initial learning and unit review activities. Each title represents a
single instructional unit which is intended to:
- Encourage phonemic awareness
- Teach basic phonics
- Build vocabulary (including correct spelling)
- Read for meaning
- Increase reading rate and fluency
Titles are available for purchase, as
separate Reading Champs Common Sense Mini Lesson (CSML) Instructional
Handbooks, either as downloadable .pdf documents
(on the Internet for between $1.95 and $6.95 each) or as binder-formatted
hard copies (by mail) at $4.00 to $8.95 each including handling and USPS
delivery.
The Mini-lesson 3-ring Organizer with
CSML-050 and the first five mini-lessons as full color hard-copies
is regularly available for $26.35 including handling and USPS delivery
within the United States.
International deliveries of the binder and four lessons are available for
an additional $7.00 postage and handling.
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