I am currently using the SRA Corrective Reading Decoding and Comprehension Programs. These programs use a direct instruction approach. A teacher using direct instruction models, explains, and guides students through extended practice of a skill or concept until mastery is achieved.    |
SRA Decoding - What is taught? These skills are emphasized in Corrective Reading’s Decoding programs: Phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is defined as “the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words.” The program incorporates two primary types of phonemic awareness activities: blending and segmenting words. Systematic, Explicit Phonics. “Phonics instruction teaches children the relationship between the letters (graphemes) of written language and individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language. It teaches children to use these relationships to read and write words.” Fluency building. Fluency involves reading text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression. “Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. Because fluent readers do not have to concentrate on decoding the words, they can focus their attention on what the text means … less fluent readers, however, must focus their attention on figuring out the words, leaving them little attention for understanding the text.” Vocabulary. “Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly, through everyday experiences with oral and written language.” Text comprehension. “Comprehension is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not understand what they are reading, they are not really reading.”
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SRA Comprehension - What is taught? Vocabulary knowledge
Logical Thinking Skills
Common Semantics
Information and Background Knowledge
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