Title I Reading Program
by Cara Simpson
Jefferson Intermediate's Title I classroom is using The Read Naturally Reading Program. Read Naturally provides a method to improve reading fluency.
Struggling readers need a safe, structured and highly motivating opportunity to engage in reading on a daily basis. The Read Naturally program uses teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress-monitoring as ways to involve struggling readers in the act of reading, to improve their fluency and to accelerate reading achievement.
31 Title I reading students are currently using the program. The students are excited about their reading. They show an increased interest in coming to reading class. They enjoy reading the interesting stories, learning to read them with ease, and watching their progress on the graphs. Improving fluency makes reading easy enough for many students to choose to read for pleasure, which is after all, a goal of most reading teachers.
