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Note: Here is what I thought were the stregths of the program. Feel free to add or delete. Please let me know if I cited my references correctly. Thanks guys....you are all great! - Susie


 * Available teacher training modules such as how to take running records, how to involve parents and how to use assessments.
 * Teachers are trained for nine months using workshops and an internet based professional development program.
 * Picture books are used to emphasize phonemic awarencess, phonics, and contextual analysis along with repeated reading and writing.
 * Activities in kinder support concepts of print, rhyme, phonemic segmentation, blending, letter and sound recognition and an emphasis on expore not mastery.
 * Activities in 1-2 follow a routine with repeated reading of a familiar story, coached reading of a new story, phonemic awareness, phonics, guided sentence writing and vocabulary and comprehension instruction.
 * Focuses on coaching students on strategies that will make them independent readers.
 * Activities in 3-4 involve small group instruction four days a week using narrative and informational picture books with a focus on fluency.
 * Reciprocal teaching is emphasized in fourth grade. Fourth graders may read their book to coach a younger child who is in first of second grade.
 * Whole group or small group friendly.

References: http://earlyinterventioninreading.com/about.php

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