Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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14 comments:

  1. raterApril 27, 2011 at 1:15 PM

    Andrea,
    How cute is he?!
    You did a nice job with this. You are very well prepared and versed!
    Jen

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  2. miprinceApril 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM

    I think your blog will be very helpful to future students in this program. Wonderful job!

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  3. Justine HillApril 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM

    Andrea, this looks great! I love it! I need to step up my Road to Reading for next year. There is a teacher at my school who went to SU and uses Road to Reading with her K-1 Intervention kids.

    Good luck!! :)

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  4. Lit Research In PracticeMay 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM

    We are currently using Road to Reading as our primary decoding intervention (RTI Tiers 2 & 3, and in special education) in the West Genesee School District. Beginning in the fall of 2011, Road to Reading will replace the current approach to phonics instruction in all of our first grade classrooms (RTI Tier 1, as the decoding piece of our core literacy instructional program). We are seeing tremendous growth in our students who are using Road to Reading, and we are excited to have this researched instructional approach used consistently across RTI Tiers. Thank you, Andrea, for creating this blog to increase dialogue among Road to Reading users. The videos have the potential to be particularly helpful in supporting teachers' professional development as they learn to implement Road to Reading. The child in the videos is the most adorable kid in the universe. Nice choice ;)

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  5. AndreaAugust 30, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    Testing

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  6. AnonymousAugust 31, 2011 at 6:48 AM

    Regarding the list of decodable books:

    I use the Reading A-Z decodable series with my second graders. The books mesh well with Road to Reading lesson plans. You download the books from www.readinga-z.com and can print them in any quantity. The books give me a good picture of how well I am delivering lessons.

    The series is sequenced a bit differently from RTR. For example, digraphs are not introduced until short vowels, blends and long vowels have been mastered. This has not been a problem. I think introducing digraphs in the Red Level gives the kids an advantage when they take on blends.

    The Reading A-Z leveled readers are a major component of homework assignments for all of our second graders. There are hundreds of them, and I can always find something when a student indicates a special interest.

    Dick Conrad

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  7. AndreaAugust 31, 2011 at 3:03 PM

    Thanks for the suggestion, Dick. And glad the comments field finally worked for you. Is a membership required for Reading A-Z, and if so, do you know the approximate cost?

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    Andrea:

    There is a yearly license fee per classroom. I don't get involved in the financial aspects, but the LearningA-Z web site quotes $85/year (each) for 1-9 classrooms. My phonic work would be dead without these books. The school was kind enough to subscribe, and in return, I download, print, assemble, replace and fix all of the books for my classrooms. The teachers just teach.

    I'm able to comment, but only as Anonymous. Fortunately, I handle phonics better than I handle blogs.

    Dick Conrad

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  9. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 8:58 AM

    Rolling right along with RTR, good things happening, and then . . . . . Spelling.
    My friend has a third grader with a DRA of 38 and climbing. His spelling is awful. This is affecting his grades and confidence. I want to help him, but my own work has only focused on spelling to the extent necessary for RTR. Is there a Benita Blachman of spelling?

    Dick Conrad
    Volunteer Reading Tutor

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  10. mybeancakesOctober 29, 2016 at 9:47 PM

    not sure you're still checking this.... but i'd really like to know perhaps before purchasing... how would one begin this with an older student with dyslexia? how does it compare to the Barton system? My student is about to start Barton book 4 but i'm looking for something that will get them reading actual books a little faster. 2 more Barton books before they can read something as simple as Frog and Toad books and their in 5th grade.

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  11. First Grade interventionJune 14, 2018 at 8:46 AM

    A great "soundboard" without all those little cards to get lost is a cookie tray with magnetic letters. The ones you can get from Really Good Stuff work well, and the vowels are in red. Place the letters around the edge, and build words in the middle.

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  12. UnknownFebruary 24, 2019 at 5:53 PM

    I would love your advice. I am very comfortable with the materials and lessons. I am stuck on how to really know where to start. I feel ok about which level matches my students, just not sure where to go within the level.....

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  13. AnonymousOctober 4, 2020 at 2:38 PM

    Andrea thank you for this site. It's a great help for me (a parent) helping my 5th grader

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  14. UnknownOctober 13, 2020 at 12:23 PM

    Ya'll, why haven't they published a digital version that we can use with remote learning!!??

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