THE PROGRAM LISTINGS THAT FOLLOW SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS AN ENDORSEMENT
BY THE HAAN FOUNDATION
FOR CHILDREN
AS TO THEIR EFFECTIVENESS, BUT RATHER AS A GENERAL INFORMATION SERVICE
TO THE PUBLIC.
Academy of Reading®
Academy of Reading® is a computer-based remediation tool for grades
K-12 designed specifically to help low-level readers acquire the skills
they need to become proficient readers. Module components address phonemic
awareness, reading sub-skills and comprehension.
Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader is a STAR Reading Computer Adaptive Test and Database
designed to help access, monitor, manage and motivate reading practice.
The product combines specialized teaching methods and computer instruction
to maximize student growth.
Breakthrough to LiteracyTM
Breakthrough to LiteracyTMis interactive software and staff
development product for individualized reading instruction.
Carbo Reading
Styles (CRS)
CRS focuses on a child's learning style as a basis for teaching reading
and comprehension techniques to children. In this program, themes, activities
and literature are used to help improve a students overall academic performance.
Cooperative
Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC)
CIRC fosters collaboration and group activities as a means to improve
student achievement in reading, writing and comprehension.
Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction
(ECRI)
ECRI is an instructional program devised to improve a students' ability
to read, write and communicate in the English language. Focused on a structured,
teacher-directed approach, the program is intended to compliment rather
than replace existing curricula, and provides teachers with the framework
to establish high levels of skill mastery for students.
Failure Free Reading
Failure Free Reading is a program designed to assist students at-risk
for reading failure, non-readers, ESL and those with severe learning difficulties.
Fast ForWord®
Fast ForWord is a training program that helps children build oral language
comprehension and other learning skills. The program is CD-ROM internet-based
product.
Four
Blocks
Four Blocks is a teaching framework for use in a heterogeneous classroom
setting, and allows students to participate in special programs like Reading
Recovery.
HOSTS (Help One Student To Succeed)
Hosts is a one-on-one academic mentoring program in language arts to help
low-achieving students improve reading, writing and problem-solving skills.
Invitations to LiteracyTM
Invitations to Literacy is a K-6 classroom program with an integrated
approach to reading and language arts. Instruction is offered through
individual & small group projects, as well as through collaboration with
Resource, Title I, Special Education and ESL classrooms.
Literacy
Collaborative
The Literacy Collaborative is a classroom based program designed to increase
literacy achievement for all students. The Literacy Collaborative program
helps schools meet this goal by providing a literacy framework that connects
reading and writing, and by training a building level literacy coordinator.
Reading Recovery must be available in Literacy Collaborative schools to
provide a safety net for at-risk children. The program is based on the
findings of A study group from the Reading Recovery Teachers of the Columbus
Public School District and Ohio State University.
Open Court
Open Court is a commercially published approach to help students learn
to read with emphasis on phonemic awareness, instruction, literature and
other language arts materials.
Reading One-to-One
(ROTO)
ROTO is a program designed to improve the reading performance of at-risk
students, particularly low-income, minority and second-language learners,
and builds on some of the elements of Reading Recovery and Success for
All.
Reading
Recovery
Reading Recovery is a short-term tutoring solution for the lowest-achieving
1st graders, and addresses the complex set of concepts that make reading
and writing possible for these students.
Seeing Stars (Lindamood-Bell)
This is an integrated reading and spelling program which helps stabilize
phonemic awareness and; Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program (Lips) stimulates
phonemic awareness through a correlation between mouth movements and the
speech sounds they produce.
Slingerland Approach
The Slingerland Approach is based on Orton-Gillingham techniques. All
learning takes place through the involvement of the auditory, visual and
kinesthetic motor channels. The Slingerland Approach starts with the smallest
unit of sight, sound and feeling - a single letter. Expanding upon that
single unit students are taught through an approach which strengthens
inner-sensory association and enables the strong channel of learning to
reinforce the weak.
Soar to Success
Soar to Success is a commercially published intervention program to help
below average readers (grade 3 and up) increase their skills through specialized
instruction.
SuccessMaker®
SuccessMaker® is a literature based computer reading program that
focuses on student comprehension, vocabulary, phonics and writing. The
curriculum challenges students to apply knowledge from literature, content-area
reading and interdisciplinary thematic units. The courseware provides
an integrated approach reading and writing instruction.
Success for
All (SFA)
Success for All is a program designed for use in Title I urban elementary
schools serving at-risk students.
Voyager Expanded LearningTM
Voyager is a hands-on, activity-based learning experience based on academic
themes formulated to pique children's interest and motivation to learn,
as well as improve performance. Voyager is after school and summer school
program for K-8 grade students.
Waterford Early Reading
Program
Waterford Early Reading Program combines individualized instruction with
classroom instruction and enables teachers to analyze the diverse needs
of students and offer appropriate intervention.
Wilson Reading System
(WRS)
WRS instruction is a multi-sensory, sequential and cumulative, diagnostic
program. Teaching plans are based on a continual assessment of a students
needs. This system helps students master decoding and spelling in an structured
and integrated process, and has been used successfully with students who
have had difficulty learning to decode or spell through traditional basal,
whole language or phonics programs.
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