Literacy
AmeriCorps members are assigned to a K-8 school and each serve a mimimum of 25 targeted deficit readers as reading tutors on a one-to-one basis or in small groups, for a minimum of 60 minutes of tutoring per student a week for the 10 month school year. Members will tutor students implementing a reading fluency model that utilizes researched based fluency instruction strategies of model fluent reading, and repeated and monitored oral reading.
AmeriCorps uses the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) as its assessment tool. DIBELS is given three times during the year (October, February, and May) to each of the 25 students. Over the course of the year the students are expected to move up at least one DIBELS proficiency level.
The National Reading panel has identified five components of literacy. These are: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension.
- Fluency
- Comprehension
- Phonics
- Phonetic Awareness
- Vocabulary
Links
- DIBELS Offical Website
- Implement Reading First - Support for Administrators, Coordinators, and Coaches
- Building Fluency: Do It Well and Do It Right!
- Monitoring Comprehension, Teaching Comprehension Strategies to Students
- Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading
Tutoring Links
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Learn to Read
Great site designed for young readers. The site has interactive story books children can read online. Each book focuses on a specific letter-sound pattern. Very user and kid friendly. - Book Adventure
Book Adventure, sponsored by the Sylvan Learning Company, features challenges for more than 5,000 books by award-winning authors. Students use the "Book Finder" to find good reads by matching their grade level with topics of interest such as "History," "Family," and "Humor." After reading a book offline, they test their comprehension of the story using the site's "Quiz-O-Matic" challenges. You can view students' scores and monitor class progress.