Literacy First

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If you are like many of your peers across the country, you have probably found a need to accelerate reading achievement with goals and expectations requiring multiple years of improvement in a single year. Surprising as it may seem, these goals are very realistic! Learn more about Literacy First for Middle School and High School: Such lofty goals were not out of reach by many schools much like yours, and they are well within the reach of your students, teachers and leadership teams as well. Literacy First can show you how it can be accomplished in your environment with existing resources, faster than you would have ever imagined. Skeptical? Want to know the secret behind these proven claims? Quite simply, the Literacy First Process builds a systemic outreach into all Content Areas, refining every teachers ’ instructional skills. This in turn promotes faster comprehension for all students. From the very start, Literacy First establishes teacher capability and confidence as well as strong supportive instructional leadership as critical success factors that are set in place with easy to follow step-by-step procedures that: - - -Enrich principal ’s instructional leadership skills and ability to provide on-going supportive growth environment. Literacy First provides a comprehensive 3-year Middle School - High School plan to Accelerated Reading and Content Area Achievement, which includes the following: a concise structured daily plan for struggling readers to receive 2 hours of systematic and explicit reading instruction plus up to 20 minutes of monitored independent reading practice; a customized schedule for school-wide achievement across all grades and content areas; on-going on-site professional development, coaching and consultation for teachers and administrators; an online data collection, management and analysis system; and registration in our annual Leadership Institute. Secondary Closing the Achievement Gap (PDF, 1.4mb)

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