Encourage and educate parents to promote their child's literacy development.

  By giving parents a variety of options to assist in the reading development, parents become better informed, thus providing more literacy opportunities for their children.  The more opportunities a child has to interact with print, the easier the acquisition of reading, writing and spelling. Well designed tutorials and well-trained volunteers have been able to make statistically significant increases on reading achievement.  During the 1999-2000 school year, volunteer training was expanded in Allen and Laredo ISD to include the methodologies of the recommended reading readiness program.  This year the program has been expanded to a tutoring system for all at-risk K-1st grade readers.

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Intervention Program Curriculum

1.      Developmental curriculum addressing three key components of reading readiness: phonology, sound/symbol identification and oral language.

2.      Manuals, materials and strategies reinforce classroom curriculum presented in Texas Reading Academy training.

Intervention Program Implementation

3.      30 minutes of small group instruction during the student’s school day

4.      Daily sessions presented 4 days each week by paid tutor

Tutor Training:

5.      Professional training in a developmental, brain-based readiness program

6.      Monthly meetings to discuss and evaluate progress

This program is the basis for parent, volunteer and Texas Reading Initiative tutoring in grades K-1.  Programs for grades 2-6 will be developed during the 2001-2002 school year.

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Beginning Reading Instruction: A Practical Guide for Parents

• http://www.tea.state.tx.us/reading/history.html

The TEA Reading Hotline number is  (800) 819-5713.

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