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Soar to Success

Soar to Success. Erika Tabler Danielle Tevlowitz. History. Developed in 1999 by Dr. J. David Cooper and Dr. David Chard Program was developed and created after a national study, Project Success, was conducted in 1995-1997 Originally created for grades 3-8 Revamped in 2008 Grades K-8.

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Soar to Success

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  1. Soar to Success Erika Tabler Danielle Tevlowitz

  2. History • Developed in 1999 by Dr. J. David Cooper and Dr. David Chard • Program was developed and created after a national study, Project Success, was conducted in 1995-1997 • Originally created for grades 3-8 • Revamped in 2008 • Grades K-8

  3. Purpose • Accelerates students reading abilities as quickly as possible • Help students learn to apply and use the comprehension and decoding strategies and skills of an effective reader as they read across the curriculum

  4. Features • Small group intervention • Small groups of no more than 7 students meet for 40 minutes a day, 5 days a week • Instructional plan • Combines reciprocal teaching, graphic organizers and authentic literature to help raise reading levels • Emphasizes reading for meaning and uses a sequenced series of books to ensure student success

  5. Features (cont.) • Progress Assessments • Uses an ongoing system of “retellings” and oral reading checks to regularly determine students’ reading program • Home Activities • Activities to be completed at home to extend student opportunities for reading and to strengthen home-school partnership

  6. Implementation • Soar To Success Instructional Plan • Revisiting (5 minutes) • Reread alone or with a partner • Teacher conducts reading check • Hold a group conference on the books • Reviewing (5 minutes) • Summarize previous days reading using graphic organizers • Discuss strategies used while reading

  7. Implementation (cont.) • Rehearsing (5-10 minutes) • Quick preview of what students will be reading • May predict, question or start a KWL chart • Reading and Reciprocal Teaching (10-15 minutes) • Read silently some of text to verify predictions • Modeling 4 strategies (summarize, clarify, question, and predict) • Students and teachers switch roles and model these strategies • Responding/Reflecting (5 minutes) • Make a written response after discussing their reflections • Complete graphic organizer • Reflect on strategies • Discuss and share

  8. Strengths • Highly organized • Teacher’s manual serves as a helpful guide • Lessons use high interest, age-appropriate books • Covers all 5 areas of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension) • Graphic organizers are effective tools for visual learners • Teacher support is gradually faded to facilitate students’ independence in the reading process • Ongoing assessments

  9. GraphicOrganizer

  10. Sample Pages

  11. Limitations • Expensive • Original version $1,442.75 • New version $ 1,619.15 • Each grade has own level (costly) • Book choice for students

  12. State Curriculum Connections • Develop comprehension skills by reading a variety of self selected and assigned literary texts • Objective • Listen to critically, read, and discuss a variety of different types of fiction and non fiction texts • Determine important ideas and messages in literary texts • Objectives • Retell the text • Summarize • Identify and explain main ideas an universal themes

  13. State Curriculum Connections (cont.) • Develop comprehension skills through exposure to a variety of texts • Objective • Discuss reactions to and ideas/information gained from reading experiences with adults and peers in both formal and informal situations

  14. Ideas for Use • As a pullout model • In-class model • Extended day model/Summer School model • Use of graphic organizers can carry over to other lessons

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