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Helping
ALL Students Learn |
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SBRR2
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Reading
Plus® is a
comprehensive, evidence based software solution for reading
assessment and improvement that develops foundational fluency
skills for students of all ages. It is the result of over 70 years
of research and development in the area of reading improvement
technology. Reading Plus® addresses all the elements of reading
cited by the National Reading Panel including: Phonemic Awareness,
Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension and, what is most important,
Fluency. |
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My Reading Coach is
a structured, flexible, mastery-based, multi-sensory program that
provides a virtual reading specialist and speech pathologist to
every student. Embedded Teacher Intelligence™
individualizes instruction to help each student reach grade level
in the skill areas of Phonemic Awareness, Phonics Sounds and
Rules, Vocabulary, Word Structure, Syntactic Processing and
Reading Comprehension. |
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NEW!
Fluent Reading Trainer (FLRT) is designed to systematically increase reading speed while
ensuring proficient reading comprehension. Layering these
component skills provides each student with educationally sound
practice in fluency. FLRT trains the
eyes to move from left to right efficiently and to sweep in one
movement, enhancing visual memory, silent reading skills, speed and
reading comprehension. |
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1 Literacy - Ministry of Education -
Province of B.C., http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/literacy/
2 Scientifically Based Reading
Research, as defined by the U.S. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act
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My
Reading Coach Platinum / Reading Plus v3.6: A Practical Comparison
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Similarities
Both programs:
- Follow the National
Reading Panel's five essential criteria for effective
literacy programs: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics,
Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
- Provide an initial
reading assessment for each student and offer
automated lesson/program progression, based on student
performance (like a mini-IEP for each student!)
- Are developed according
to Scientifically Based Reading Research, as defined
by the U.S.A.'s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of
2001
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My
Reading Coach Platinum by Mindplay |
Reading
Plus v3.6, by Taylor Associates |
- Can be run on a LAN or
WAN, or it can be installed on a Stand-alone computer
- Is speech-based, because
all written text is code that is based on speech
- Begins with a focus on
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, then builds Grammar
(syntactic processing), Fluency, Spelling, and
Comprehension skills as the student progresses
- Provides a Speech
Language Pathologist for every student plus three
different "coaches," thus enabling the
student to hear a variety of voices and speech
patterns
- Includes 61 phonemic
awareness and 24 grammar lessons; more than 200
stories at reading levels 1 to 10.5
- Mindplay guarantees that
My Reading Coach will improve your students' reading
comprehension scores 10-30 percentile points after 50
hours of use or your money back
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- Is currently offered as
a browser based program that can be delivered either
ONLINE from the Reading Plus website or from a server
in your district/school (LAN and WAN)
- Provides carefully
monitored and controlled structure that many students
need during sustained silent reading time
- Is comprised of three
complementary lesson groups that emphasize Fluency,
Decoding & Vocabulary, and Comprehension
- Provides the option for
the Visagraph, an Eye-Movement Recording System that
is used to obtain diagnostic information for
chronically struggling readers. Many optometrists are
now using the same technology.
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