Rewards Reading Intervention

Michelle Terry

REWARDS
Reading
Excellence Word

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REWARDS (Intermediate)
REWARDS (Original/Secondary) REWARDS Plus: Reading Strategies Applied to Social Studies Passages REWARDS Plus: Reading Strategies Applied to Science Passages

What is REWARDS?

A highly research-validated program

An intense, short-term intervention program (6-8 weeks) A program that provides flexible strategies for decoding long words.

A program that increases students oral and silent reading fluency.

A well scripted program Each lesson explicitly taught using Gradual Release of Responsibility Model Helps students with fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Who developed REWARDS?

Dr.

Anita Archer

40+ years experience Focus on explicit instruction

1st

launched in 2000

Who is it designed for?

Students who:
Are

in 4-12th grade

Have

mastered basic reading skills form 1st and 2nd grade but: have difficulty reading multisyllabic words read slowly

Who can teach the REWARDS program?

General Reading

Education Teachers Teachers

Special

Education Teachers

Paraeducators

Well-trained
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Tutors

When do you use REWARDS?

When

a student is having trouble decoding words

When When

a student is reading slowly

a student is reading below grade level

Where can this program be used?

Whole group Small group Individually General Education Classrooms Special Education Classrooms

Summer School Programs

Why use REWARDS?

word recognition skills are one of the most pervasive of reading challenges. Its also necessary for comprehension On average, from fifth grade on, students encounter more than 10,000 new words (Nagy & Anderson, 1984) mostly multisyllabic content words decoding instruction stops in 2nd grade, but multisyllabic words increase.

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Why use REWARDS?

The ability to decode long words is the major difference between good and poor readers. Poor readers will read less Matthew Effect Rich get richer, poor get poorer Training can be completed for this program in one day. several opportunities to train

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Why use REWARDS?

Reviewed by Florida Center for Reading Research The programs are explicit, systematic, and offer repeated practice opportunities for decoding and fluency. The flexible decoding strategy teaches students to examine letters and patterns in words, rather than guessing from context. Both programs are easy to implement, teacher-friendly and can be used by a wide variety of professionals, paraprofessionals, and volunteers. Student progress is easily monitored, charted, and rewarded, thus increasing motivation. Florida uses the REWARDS program in 37/67 school districts

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Why use REWARDS?

Seventh, eighth, and ninth graders who were taught a decoding strategy for reading long words had fewer oral reading errors and increased reading comprehension (Lenz & Hughes, 1990) Significant increases in word reading accuracy and fluency were observed in sixth, seventh, and eighth graders using REWARDS program. (Vachon & Gleason, 2000)

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Why use REWARDS?

Reading deficient fourth and fifth graders who were taught the REWARDS strategies made significant gains over students receiving monosyllabic word instruction. (Archer, Gleason, Vachon, & Hollenbeck, 2000)

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