Reading
Students are provided with individualized reading instruction where they are cued to employ all the decoding and comprehension strategies they are taught in their special classes. Reading teachers provide one-on-one instruction utilizing quality children's literature, thus motivating the students to read. Skill building in vocabulary, fluency, sentence structure, clarification, retelling and summarization receive special attention during this concentrated reading session.
These specialized reading sessions allow for the sustained systematic intervention and the careful monitoring of progress necessary for optimal success.