Soar to Success Teachers Manual Level 1 (Volume 2) by David Chard (2007-05-03)

Soar to Success is a reading intervention for students in grades 3-8 who are reading below grade level. It is used in addition to a school's core reading program. Two primary goals of this intervention are: to accelerate students' reading ability, and, to help students to quickly and easily apply the comprehension and decoding strategies they have learned to other content area texts. The ultimate goal of Soar to Success however, is to increase students' understanding of what they read through an approach called reciprocal teaching. Essentially, reciprocal teaching is a lively dialogue between the teacher and the students where students are taught to use the cognitive strategies of summarizing, clarifying, questioning, and predicting. Soar to Success lends itself to a variety of settings and may be taught by classroom teachers, reading specialists, special education teachers, and other educators. The components of each grade level include 18 literature books, a comprehensive, highly detailed teacher's guide, assessments including an Informal Reading Inventory and protocols for oral reading fluency and retelling, an aligned student guide, posters of the strategies and graphic organizers, and a staff development video. A phonics/decoding screener is also available as well as additional phonics lessons to accompany each book for students in need of extra support.