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Comparing Every Child a Reader with basal reading programs
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Basal Reader Programs
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Every Child a Reader
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• Provides 4 generalized levels of text by grade level.
- Grade level text of the week
- “Satellite” readers include:
- 1 “grade level” reader
- 1 below grade level
- 1 above grade level
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• Provides for 7 developmental reading stages
- First three stages span 32 levels of difficulty
- Upper four stages include 16 levels of difficulty, differentiated across ten major
text genres
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• Program sequence determines skill instruction
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• Assessment data determines skill instruction
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• Teaches skills with a definition and seatwork
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• Teaches skills with definition, rationale, strategy, and application
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• Does not consistently teach the basic comprehension skills tested on state
reading assessments (for example, “Main Idea” in the grade 5 basal is
directly taught only four times in a year, two of those times after the state assessment
has been given)
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• Consistently teaches and reinforces the eight major comprehension skills
tested
on state reading assessments
- The program prescribes additional targeted instruction for those students who
do not demonstrate mastery
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• Teaches a skill definition
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• Teaches a cognitive process
for skill application
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