Literacy Lessons Overview

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What

Literacy Lessons is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring designed to reach struggling readers. 

Who

Literacy Lessons offers intervention with a focus on English Learners and Special Education, for those struggling with classroom instruction.

How

Students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks, one-on-one with a specially trained teacher so they can catch up with their peers.

Literacy Lessons At A Glance
  • Designed to reach struggling readers with a focus on English Learners and Special Education
  • Research-based intervention with decades of success
  • A strong professional development component transforms existing staff into literacy intervention experts

 

For more information about Literacy Lessons training, contact a University Training Center.

 

Literacy Lessons Extends Expert Teaching to Special Populations

Literacy Lessons™ is an intervention designed to reach young children (generally Grades 1-12) in special education or ESL settings who are struggling with beginning reading and writing. Specialist teachers in these two settings are trained to use instructional procedures to design individual lessons for their students with the goal of accelerating their literacy learning.

Children selected for Literacy Lessons are in the beginning stages of learning to read and write. They are identified based on the results of their assessment with An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement. The theoretical base and teaching procedures for Literacy Lessons were developed by Marie Clay, the internationally known researcher.

Literacy Lessons includes a strong professional development component, implementation standards and guidelines, and data collection.

Teachers
Teachers of Literacy Lessons enter professional development courses as teachers certified/licensed in special education or ESL or bilingual education with experience and expertise in working with the population of their specialty. These specialists are seeking additional skill in helping students overcome literacy difficulties and develop effective early reading and writing systems.

Initial training consists of one to two years of graduate-level credit courses taught by a registered Teacher Leader in consultation with the University Training Center.

The courses must meet the contact hour requirement of the credit-granting institution.

For more information about training for Literacy Lessons, contact a University Training Center near you.

Data
Literacy Lessons is a research-based intervention. A key principle of operation is that data are collected on every student served. Data are used to determine the effectiveness for students from special populations in special education and ESL. Data are also used in a formative way to increase the intervention’s effectiveness.

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