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Improves Student Performance through Reading Proficiency. My Reading Coach. General Concerns. National focus: Improve test scores National trend: Increasingly diverse student population District concerns: Tight budgets Qualified teacher shortage
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Improves Student Performancethrough Reading Proficiency My Reading Coach
General Concerns • National focus: Improve test scores • National trend: Increasingly diverse student population District concerns: • Tight budgets • Qualified teacher shortage • Increasing drop-out rate among new teachers • Inconsistent teaching methods based on human differences • Many children are left behind their peers
Classroom Concerns • Pressure to increase test scores • Many students are at the lowest stanine levels – increasing 1 grade level in a year is not enough • Many students have limited English skills • High mobility / human differences effect student success • Teachers working harder with fewer resources
Why is My Reading Coach Instruction Essential? Results: • 10 – 30 percentile point improvement in 50 hours of instruction (GUARANTEED) • High cost special needs classes reduced • Supplements ALL existing reading programs • Provides consistentone-on-one instruction to every student • Helps all teachers and all students become successful
Word Lists for Lessons Lesson 1Lesson 25Lesson 61 am, ma, leap, moan expectation na, ap, pa goal, soap interdependent goat, mean contemplative insubordination conservation
My Reading CoachInteractive Reading Comprehension Activity Story Equivalent Reading Level 10.0
Results: Middle School Improvement 11 to 19 percentile pointsAt Risk Students
Results: High SchoolImprovement 12 percentile pointsHigh School Remedial English
Hear the Difference Randy after 47 lessons Randy after Lesson 12 Willie after 28 lessons Willie after Lesson 12
Mindplay Instructional Software • 20 years experience developing Award Winning Educational Software • Our success is vested in the success of your students • My Reading Coach – has evolved from the classroom, it is research based and we guarantee results with your students
My Reading Coach Background • Jim Larrabee: 25 year veteran public school teacher • speech pathologist, reading and special education teacher – program developer. • Jim’s technique had 100% success rate teaching middle school and elementary students to read on grade level in two semesters • Best Practice / Best Theory Development • 5 years of Field Testing and great success with Elementary Schools, Middle Schools and High Schools
Why Are We Unique? We believe the PROCESS drives the results Best Practices Methodology Research & Development Research Infused Success Guaranteed! 10 – 30 percentile points CustomerSupport Diagnostic Placement Staff Development One-on-one “Teacher Emulated” Instruction
National Reading PanelElements required for reading success • Systematic Phonics andPhonemic Awareness • Fluency - Speed , Accuracy, Expression • Text Comprehension Suggested Strategy: • Create mental pictures of what you read • Vocabulary • Spelling
Cognitive Learning Theory Successful Learning Model No Mis-learning Student Model Teacher Test Feedback
My Reading Coach Lessons • 61Phonemic Awareness Lessons • 61Coach Assisted Spelling Lessons • 24Grammar Lessons to TeachComprehension • Reading Comprehension Practice Activities • 15Teacher Interventions using Expert Sheets
My Reading CoachGrammar Lessons -Nouns -Proper Nouns -Adjectives -Prepositions -Articles -Interrogative Pronouns -Verbs; Linking Verbs -Conjunctions -Helping Verbs -Abstract Nouns -Punctuation -Double Duty Pronouns -Question/Order -Possessive Pronouns -Subject/Predicate -Contractions
My Reading Coach61 Lessons: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Phonetic Rules
My Reading CoachInteractive Student Activities: Listen and FindVisual Discrimination: similar appearance different word
My Reading CoachInteractive Student Activities: Reading WordsDecoding a word: discriminate from similar sounding words
My Reading CoachInteractive Student Activities: Word BuildingAuditory Discrimination: words into individual sounds • Coach says a word: “trait” • Student types: “traet” Coach instantly responds
My Reading CoachInteractive Student Activities: Writing Encoding : 10,000 unique situations for specific remediation
My Reading CoachVowel – Sound – Stick: Easily decoding multi-syllable words
My Reading CoachInteractive Grammar Lesson and Activity • Improves reading comprehen-sion • Improves writing skills • Ensures application and retention • Fast learning progression
My Reading CoachInteractive Reading Comprehension Activity Story Equivalent Reading Level – 1.0 – 10.5 • Story level assigned automati-cally • Pause points help students at reading level 1 and 2 understand grammar clues taught by the coach
My Reading CoachInteractive Reading Comprehension Activity • The coach asks a question
My Reading CoachStudent Help: First Feedback Three levels of help 1st Response Sight words or words that do not fit the patterns learned can be voiced Click on the red word
My Reading CoachStudent Help: Second Feedback 2nd Response The coach helps the student succeed by focusing in on the answer.
My Reading CoachStudent Help: Third Feedback Third Response The correct answer is displayed.
My Reading CoachInteractive Reading Comprehension Activity Story Equivalent Reading Level 5.5
Types of Reports • Student • Entire Class • School
Student Reports • Student Performance Report – Phonics • Student Performance Report – Grammar • Student Performance Report – Comprehension • Student Error Report • Student Attendance Report
Class Reports • Class Daily Lesson Plan • Class Remediation Report • Class Improvement Report • Class Grammar Report • Class Reading Comprehension Report • Class Progress Checklist
School Report • School Progress Report