How do you evaluate a reading program?

With this checklist, you can…

1. Evaluate reading programs based on criteria in six key areas.
2. Compare the programs side by side to analyze similarities and differences.
3. Discover which program will most effectively fulfill your child’s individual needs.

What makes a good phonics program?

Be a complete phonics programme, following a consistent framework, and using systematic synthetic phonics as the main route to reading unknown words. Teach children to decode and spell common exception words. Provide resources, including decodable readers, that enable you to deliver the programme effectively.

What should you look for in a phonics instructional program?

It should include teaching letter shapes and names, phonemic awareness, and all major letter-sound relationships. It should ensure that all children learn these skills. As instruction proceeds, children should be taught to use this knowledge to read and write words.

What are literacy programs?

A literacy program contains all the components necessary for you to master reading and writing. But we feel that no matter what program is popular at the time, an effective literacy program should always encompass these six basic components: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing.

What are reading programs?

Reading programs must monitor and evaluate learners’ attainment of the five essential sub-skills of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension).

What is a phonics program?

The primary focus of phonics instruction is to help beginning readers understand how letters are linked to sounds (phonemes) to form letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns and to help them learn how to apply this knowledge in their reading. Phonics instruction may be provided systematically or incidentally.

What is high quality phonics teaching?

High-quality phonic teaching, therefore, secures the crucial skills of word recognition that, once mastered, enable children to read fluently and automatically thus freeing them to concentrate on the meaning of the text. The ultimate goal of learning to read is comprehension.

How will you evaluate mastery phonics?

One tool that is useful is a phonics diagnostic assessment, which is an informal evaluation that identifies mastered and missing phonics skills for early readers. Teachers use diagnostic data to determine where to begin instruction and intervention.

What are some effective literacy programs?

DataWORKS has created a Learning to Read English program which addresses all of these components.

• Phonemic Awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear that a spoken word is made up of a series of discrete sounds.
• Phonics Instruction.
• Vocabulary.
• Fluency.
• Comprehension.
• Writing.

What is literacy intervention programs?

Literacy intervention programs are organized efforts to address issues causing students to struggle with literacy competencies. Learn the importance of interventions, how assessments are implemented and decoded, and examples in fluency, comprehension, and writing.