What are the Five W’s of the Project Read Program? How can it be useful in your classroom? Can this program fit into your language arts? Will it benefit your students? If you have been asking yourself any of these questions keep reading!
What is Project Read ?
First, Project Read Language Arts Program is a reading and writing program that is based on the study of several courses. It includes materials in the following areas:
- Phonics
- Early education for Pre-K and Kindergarten Students
- Primary Phonics: 1st-3rd Grade Students
- Linguistics: 4th-12th Grade Students
- Reading Comprehension
- Story Form: Narrative Texts for Grades 1st-5th
- Report Form: Expository Text for Grades 3rd-12th
- Story Form: Narrative Texts for Grades 6th-12th
- Written Expression
- Sentence Structure: 1st-12th Grade Students
- Applied Writing: 1st-12th Grade Students
Who Should Use Project Read?
This program helps students become thoughtful readers. Students also build skills to become independent readers. Project Read can be used in the following settings:
- General Education Classrooms
- Special Education Classrooms
- Title I Classrooms
- Intervention Programs
- Home School Programs
Where & When Is Project Read Implemented?
Project Read can be taught by general education, special education or reading teachers. Blocks of time are set up for daily lessons. Additionally, importance on teaching skills include:
- Teaching of reading skills
- Skills are taught from simplest to most complex
- Variety of sensory methods and materials for each skill
- VAKT: Visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile strategies
Why Project Read?
Not only has the Project Read Language Arts Program been proven to be successful, it also meets the standards of current reading and writing studies. For this reason, here are a few of its strengths:
- Complete Scope & Sequence
- Sound Symbol and Spelling Visual Aids
- Many Reading and Decodable Stories
- Variety of Sensory Skills: VAKT-Visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile strategies
- Advanced Decoding and Word Attack Skills
Examples of Project Read Support Materials
In conclusion, knowing the Five W’s of the Project Read program will allow you to make an informed decision of whether to use this language arts program in your classroom. The Project Read Language Arts Program supports not only students, but also educators.
It empowers teachers with instructional strategies with the use of multisensory methods that takes into consideration all diverse learning needs. Furthermore, it provides lessons built on direct concept teaching that targets higher-level thinking skills.
Find some more Project Read support materials in my store, The Teaching Scene by Maureen.
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