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Summer Reading Skills 
Programs
Program 2
Program 2: Independent Reading Skills for Entering 2nd Graders
Phonics & Word Attack - Comprehension - Love of Reading
 Goals
This program helps students strengthen independent reading skills. Your
son or daughter will build confidence while learning and practicing these
skills, including phonics, word-attack skills, multi-syllable words, sight
vocabulary, reading aloud with expression, silent reading, and comprehension
skills.
Our long term goal is to help you make sure your child becomes an avid
reader. Children who read for pleasure, outside of school, become strong
readers and confident students, whose lives are enriched through contact
with great literature.
Instructor
Instructors are drawn from the faculty of the Institute of Reading Development.
Curriculum design and instructor training are supervised by Paul Copperman,
a Presidential appointee to the National Council on Educational Research,
and the author of Taking Books to Heart: How to Develop a Love of
Reading in Your Child.
Format
This lively and engaging class is conducted as a workshop, a format that
facilitates full participation and allows the instructor to provide individual
attention and the appropriate level of challenge and encouragement for
each student. Class is divided into short segments, each devoted to a
stimulating activity. During class, the teacher models activities and
skills to the class as a group, and then coaches individual students as
they practice and gain confidence with their new skills as applied to
great children's literature. At home, students continue to practice these
skills in workbooks and in books they select based upon personal interest.
Class meets for two hours, once a week for five weeks. Your child will
practice at home for 30-45 minutes, four times per week. Parents are invited
to attend parent meetings at the end of the first and last lessons.
Skills
Phonics & Word-Attack Skills:
The program includes direct instruction in phonics and word-attack skills.
This is provided though in-class instruction, as well as through the highly
successful and engaging workbook and audio CD, Pole and Vole and the Quest
for the Book of Language. This workbook and CD provide phonics instruction
in an adventure story format.
See sample pages from Pole and
Vole and the Quest for the Book of Language (PDF document).
Comprehension Skills:
Students learn to ask questions about the story and characters, and to
relate the elements of each story to their own lives. In this way our
students become active readers with strong comprehension. Finally, students
learn to imagine more clearly what is described by the author, identify
more completely with the thoughts and feelings of characters, and actively
anticipate what comes next in the story.
Independent Reading Skills:
Through class activities and home practice, your child will develop a
larger sight vocabulary. Students also practice reading with expression
and handling punctuation consistently, making the process of getting through
words less choppy, labored, and distracting. As a result, students are
able to read more fluently and concentrate more clearly on the content.
Materials
All of the materials we use are designed to build independent reading
skills and encourage a love of reading. Students receive a phonics workbook,
Pole and Vole and the Quest for the Book of Language. This beautifully-illustrated
workbook (with accompanying CD's) will hold your child's interest and
generate enthusiastic participation because it uses adventure stories,
characters, and music to teach phonics skills. Participants also receive
a Course Workbook and Parent Manual, which contains in-class exercises,
homework activities for each week of the course, and, for parents, a detailed
overview of all skills and activities contained in the program.
See sample pages from
the Course Workbook and Parent Manual (PDF document).
You and your child will also receive the Reading Development Booklist,
an important tool for building strong reading skills and the lifelong
habit of reading for pleasure. The Reading Development Booklist summarizes
hundreds of the very best children's books. By using the recommendations,
which are organized by level of difficulty, you and your child will know
what books to choose and what sequence to read them in. Your child's instructor
will evaluate your child's stage of reading development and provide guidance
on where your child should begin in the booklist.
See sample pages from
Reading Development Booklist (PDF document).
Tuition is $299.
To register or receive more information, please call 1-800-964-8888,
8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday. Enroll
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