Ready4Reading Evidence Portfolio
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Program Overview and Theory of Action
As an overarching theory of action, Ready4Reading seeks to improve literacy outcomes for burgeoning readers in grades K – 3 by serving as a comprehensive instructional resource for phonics teaching in adopting schools. The program features a research-based phonics teaching system (Wiley Blevins) that is delivered through whole-class lessons and targeted activities for small- group instruction, and features a robust library of decodable short texts and content- facing “Read to Know” text sets aimed at simultane ously developing students ’ decoding skills and academic content knowledge. The program provides for a minimum of 60 minutes of program instructional material each week for the duration of the school year. A detailed overview of the program’s features, components, and scope and sequence is provided in subsequent sections and the appendix of this evidence portfolio. In brief, these main program features are described below: o Wiley Blevins ’s Teaching Phonics Program. Wiley Blevins ’s Phonics lessons serve as the main point of whole-class instruction through Ready4Reading. These lessons are explicitly designed to provide research-based, systematic, whole-class comprehensive phonics instruction to students in grades kindergarten through third. Instruction offers a variety of evidence-based strategies to aid teachers in teaching essential phonics skills and to help young learners become confident and successful readers. Lesson cards provide teachers with research-based instruction in the alphabetic principle, phonics, word study, and morphology. Each lesson includes a brief phonemic awareness activity, a connected passage to contextualize learning, and activities for teacher-led small-group instruction, including interactive digital activities and activity book pages (available digitally and in print). Program components include: o 68 Digital & Print Lessons – Including 27 Alphabetic, 27 Phonics, and 14 Word Study Lessons o 309 Digital Teaching Activities – Including 107 Alphabetic, 160 Phonics, and 42 Wordy Study Activities o 50 Assessments – Including 41 Quick Checks (weekly assessments), 7 Benchmark assessments, and two comprehensive (placement/summative) assessments o 408 Practice Materials, including: ▪ 270 Blackline Masters Workbook Pages ▪ 68 Printable Learning Centers ▪ 70 Printable Extension Activities o Multimedia, including: ▪ 44 Articulation Videos ▪ 28 Alphabet Chants ▪ 1 Alphabet Song ▪ “Little Red Bag” Manipulatives Kit, which includes metal trays , magnetic letter tiles, sound cubes, Elkonin boxes, and flash cards o Short Reads Decodables. Short Reads Decodables offer short, compelling decodable texts for teacher-led, small group instruction. These two-sided Student Cards are designed to incrementally target individual sound-spellings and help young readers practice and solidify the discrete phonics elements they are learning. The informational and fiction texts
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