Scott Foresman Reading Street is a scientifically research-based reading, language arts program. Reading Street provides systematic and explicit instruction on the 5 core elements critical to reading success: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.

Reading Street is complete with a fully integrated language arts strand, including writing, grammar, and spelling. This program is designed to meet the needs of all students. Extensive instructional support is provided for below, on level, and advanced students.

There is a comprehensive array of components integrated into the instruction to support both the teacher and the student. The core program includes a variety of reading components, including Teacher’s Editions,big books, practice books, leveled readers, decodable readers, strategic intervention readers, picture cards, graphic organizers, and phonics songs and rhymes.

A typical day of Reading Street includes the following activities:

• Calendar

  Students are engaged in learning about months, days of the week and their order and classroom jobs are assigned to students. This activity is ompleted as a whole group.

• Message Board

  A Question of the Week is displayed and discussed.This activity is completed as a whole group.

• Oral Language

  This activity is completed as a whole group.  Students are engaged in activities to develop and build oral vocabulary.  Students are engaged in singing songs and learning phonological awareness.

• Comprehension

  Students work with their teacher in small groups that differentiate and develop reading skills. Students are presented lessons to teach them to recognize high-frequency words, phonological awareness, letter recogition and modeled reading strategies.

• Literacy Centers

  Students work independently in literacy centers while the teacher works with small groups of students. The classroom aide works with the students in centers while the classroom teachers present guided reading lessons.

• Shared Writing

  Students are engaged in large group writing activities with the teacher.

Parents are welcomed to visit in their kindergartner's classroom to observe Reading Street being used. All parents must sign in at the office to visit in classrooms.

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