Free reading intervention and literacy development program - a high-quality, research-based program drawing on decades of reading research to help every child become a reader.

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FreeReading.net – Free reading intervention program

FreeReading  is a high-quality, open-source, free reading intervention program addressing literacy development for primary school children. Schools and teachers everywhere can use the complete, research-based 40-week program for K-1 students, or use the library of lessons to supplement existing curricula in phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

Why Use FreeReading?

It’s a high-quality, research-based program drawing on decades of reading research to help every child become a reader. More importantly, it is continually being field-tested in classrooms like yours, so it evolves according to what works and what doesn’t. While the major print programs take five or seven years between revision cycles, FreeReading is constantly updated according to what works best.

FreeReading early literacy activities

FreeReading provides a 40-week scope and sequence of activities in the following categories:

• Phonological Awareness: Students learn to blend and segment the sounds in spoken words.
• Letter Sounds: Students learn to say the most common sounds for printed letters.
• Letter Writing: Students learn the correct way to write letters.
• Sounding Out: Students learn to produce and blend the letter-sound patterns in written words. For the first time, they read.
• Word-Form Recognition: Students learn to read written words without sounding them out. (Some educators refer to these words as “sight words.”)
• Irregular Words: Students learn to read high-frequency irregular words such as the and was by sight.
• Reading Connected Text: Students learn to read their first stories.
• Letter Combinations: Students learn to say the most common sounds for letter combinations such as sh and oa.
• Irregular Words II: Students learn more high-frequency irregular words to read by sight.
• Advanced Phonics: Students learn to read words with features such as inflected endings, silent letters, and multiple syllables.

(Source: http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Frequently_Asked_Questions )

Community Based Website

FreeReading.net is a wiki-based web site. The content is built by community – teachers, parents and students themselves. If you have something to contribute, you just need to open an account (free), create a page and add your content. This is the reason the website is so successful – it is live, organic and up to date.

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The review "FreeReading.net – Free reading intervention program" was last updated on 23/6/09.