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A Reading Plus goal setting worksheet for students

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Helps students keep track of which worksheets they have completed.

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Help students stay accountable and reflect on their progress

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Simple worksheet that helps students record their comprehension scores and keep track of progress.

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Students note three key points from each lesson.  Great way to ensure accountability and comprehension.

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Overview of key elements of SeeReader. Be sure to share this information with your students!

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Great advice for supporting students who need some extra help.

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Re-reads are a crucial support that students can use to be successful.

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Reading Plus and Second Language Learners

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Reading Plus and Second Language Learners

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Strategies for using Reading Plus with Second Language Learners

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Here is an overview of how Skills Coach works.  Remember to go to www.skillscoach.readingplus.com to get started.

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Using Skills Coach with Groups and Individuals

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Using Skills Coach with Groups and Individuals

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Stragies for Skills Coach Implentation

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See this link for more information about Skills Coach, its development, purpose, and implementation.

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Every state has raised the bar for student reading achievement. Today's students are expected to graduate high school empowered to meet the challenges of college and career. This includes attaining a level of reading proficiency that allows them to understand highly complex texts in a deep and meaningful way.

To achieve this literacy goal, grade-level reading proficiency is crucial, beginning in the earliest years of school. Students must learn, practice, and master critical reading skills so they are fully prepared to comprehend the increasingly complex texts they will encounter as they advance from grade to grade.

Reading Plus provides the instruction your students need to become proficient readers. The program was designed to align with state and national standards, including the Common Core State Standards Anchor Skills for Reading, and has the ability to identify and remediate specific skill deficiencies in individual students. Each reading selection in the program is followed by 10 text-based selected response comprehension tasks that examine a student's facility with 25 discrete reading skills. These skills are linked to anchor skills for Close Reading, Main Idea and Themes, Interaction of Ideas, Use of Language, Structure, Point of View, Imaging, Reasoning and Rhetoric, and Comparative Reading. Comprehension questions grow increasingly complex as students progress through the program.

Skills Coach is an engaging, interactive series of online lessons addressing nine major reading comprehension categories. The lessons closely examine each category, analyzing component subskills and the types of comprehension questions and answer choices students encounter in the program. In addition, Skills Coach offers students practice exercises to strengthen their understanding and mastery of comprehension skills.

This describes what is included in each tutorial, offers usage suggestions, and provides a link to the Skills Coach Teacher Guide is designed to support teachers' use of Skills Coach in a variety of classroom settings. The guide explains the pedagogy, purpose, and function of Skills Coach, . Skills Coach Quick-Start

Pedagogical Foundations of Skills Coach
Explained by Dr. P. David Pearson Skills Coach was created with the guidance and expertise of Dr. P. David Pearson, a prominent expert on reading instruction and assessment. Dr. Pearson is a faculty member and former Dean at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He helped create texts and design items for Smarter Balanced, an online computer-adapted performance assessment in English language arts based on the Common Core.

In the Duke & Pearson approach (see Duke et al., 2010), this GRR is accomplished through a set of steps that teachers enact in introducing a skill. Those steps include:

1. An explicit description of the strategy and when and how it should be used

2. Teacher and/or student modeling of the strategy in action

3. Collaborative use of the strategy in action

4. Guided practice using the strategy with gradual release of responsibility

5. Independent use of the strategy

In Skills Coach , we have tried to emulate what good teachers do when they follow this GRR model as outlined by Duke et al. by varying the level of coaching and scaffolding that we provide from the beginning to the end of each lesson. To do that, we begin with language that models the skill as described in step 1: an explicit description of the what, when, and how of the skill. And, of course, like the model, we end up in step 5 by asking students to apply the skill on their own to a new text and setting. And in between, Skills Coach , like the GRR model, provides a set of ever less elaborate scaffolds to talk students through the process of enacting the skill in a kind of give-and-take dialogue in which the coach might say things like,

Does that work? Maybe, maybe not? Let's keep it on the table and look at other options.
This seems plausible, but is it better than the last choice? Not sure? Let's check out another possibility.

Every comprehension question is designed to test a specific comprehension skill. These skills align with the Reading Plus SeeReader Anchor Standards for Reading in the Common Core State Standards .
Close Reading
The Skills Coach library includes Tutorial and Practice activities at two different levels, basic and intermediate. The basic level teaches essential elements of subskills for students who struggle significantly with reading. The intermediate level teaches deeper and more nuanced lessons about the subskills to students who are ready for more challenging tasks. Note that the Overview videos are the same for both basic and intermediate levels.
Main Idea and Themes
Identifying Explicit Details
Drawing Conclusions & Making Inferences
Interaction of Ideas
Determining Main IdeaDetermining ThemesDetermining Relative Importance

Summarizing
Use of Language
Predicting OutcomesAnalyzing Setting, Plot, and Character

Analyzing Cause and Effect
Structure
Interpreting Word Meaning: DefinitionsInterpreting Word Meaning: Figurative LanguageInterpreting Analogies

Visualizing
Point of View
Examining Text StructureExamining Sequence of Ideas and Events

Examining Genre
Image Scaffolds
Recognizing Author's PurposeRecognizing Persuasive Devices: Slant and BiasRecognizing Persuasive Devices: Fact and Opinion

Recognizing Mood and Tone
Reasoning and Rhetoric Comparative Reading
Interpreting Images and Maps

Compare, Contrast, and Integrate
Classify
Small-group remediation scenario, for students showing deficiencies in the same skills
Skills Coach lessons are suitable for a variety of classroom settings. Run-time for a full lesson (Overviews, subskill Tutorials, and Practice) is between 8 and 35 minutes. Each full lesson can be segmented into mini-lessons that focus on one subskill, allowing for targeted instruction.

Reading Plus provides educators with a Class Skill Group Report (see below) which groups students according to skill deficiencies. Teachers can see at a glance which students in the class are struggling with each skill, making it easy to plan for and deliver targeted group instruction to students who share deficiencies.

Based on data in the Class Skill Group Report , gather the students who share a skill deficiency in a small group. Suggest that the students bring notebooks to take notes about the lesson so they have reference materials after the lesson is finished. View the corresponding Skills Coach Overview and complete the Tutorial and Practice component with the group. (Note: the lesson for the complete Anchor Skill may be shown in full, or it may be segmented into subskill mini-lessons at the teacher's discretion due to time considerations.)

Keep the following scaffolding support in mind:

1. Overview: Overview videos may be paused, so take the time to clarify a point or replay a section. Prompt your students to jot down notes about clues on how to recognize this skill and its subskills.

2. Tutorial: Tutorials may be paused, so take the time to review each comprehension question and answer choice with your students to ensure their understanding of the task. Encourage students to jot down notes on what it means to break down a comprehension question and assess the answer choices.

3. Practice: Remind students to use the notes they took during the Overview and Tutorial. Additional scaffolding may take a few different forms, based on the needs and overall dynamic of the group.
Whole-class scenario, for use as a mini-lesson to introduce or reinforce a skill for all students
Option: Independent Group Practice Task: View the Overview and Tutorial for an Anchor Skill or subskill with the group, pausing to discuss or clarify as necessary. Then ask the group to complete the corresponding student Practice comprehension question. Give the students a minute to think about the answer choices and choose an answer (keeping in mind students may choose different answers). Encourage students to refer to their notes and discuss among themselves before choosing their answers. Then compare the group's answers with the correct answer. Celebrate correct answers! For incorrect answers, refer back to the Practice excerpt and comprehension task to reassess the answer choices. Use concepts presented in the Tutorial to help students understand why the incorrect answer choices are incorrect.

Alternately, the subskill for the week may be Comparative Reading: Compare, Contrast, and/or Integrate. View the corresponding Skills Coach Overview and complete the Tutorial and Practice with the class at the beginning of the week. Encourage students to jot down notes so they have a written reference once the lesson is finished. Instruct students to choose a Reading Plus selection from their respective reading levels in a specific interest category (for example, Heroes & Trailblazers) at some point that week, keeping additional notes on what they encounter. Have a brief discussion at the end of the week comparing and contrasting different elements of the selections. This could be any number of elements, such as text structure (how the selections are organized and presented), character analysis (what traits the heroes/trailblazers from various selections have in common), or cause and effect (what events or circumstances motivated these heroes/trailblazers to take action).

It may also be helpful to keep the scaffolded support listed in the Small Group section in mind, as much of it can be adjusted to fit large-group needs.
Private tutoring scenario, for struggling students who would benefit most from one-on-one instruction
Individualized Instruction

For students who consistently struggle with comprehension tasks and require in-depth help with one or more comprehension skills, Skills Coach lessons can be used for teacher-led individualized instruction. It is highly recommended that a teacher view Skills Coach with the student to provide additional scaffolding and support as the student moves through the lessons.

Reading Plus provides educators with a Student Offline Skills Report (see below), which displays individual students and the skill(s) in which they are deficient. Teachers can see at a glance which students require additional help with which skill(s), making it easy to plan for and deliver either targeted small-group instruction for students who share deficiencies or individual instruction for those students who would benefit from one-on-one assistance.

Consider making a plan to address these skills one at a time over the course of weeks or months.

Many of the guidelines listed in the Small Group section may be adjusted and applied to individualized instruction. For students needing extra assistance, it may be helpful to keep the following scaffolding support in mind:

1. Overview: Help the student take notes about the skill by pausing the Overview and emphasizing important points to remember. Clarify any language or ideas that the student may not know or understand.

2. Tutorial: Help the student by guiding him or her through the different parts of the Tutorial. Ensure the student understands the excerpt. Pause the Tutorial as needed to provide further explanation for a comprehension question, or support when analyzing the answer choices. Guide the student through the process of choosing an answer as the Tutorial progresses.

3. Practice: Help the student work through the Practice by engaging in active collaboration. Make sure the student understands the Practice excerpt. Remind the student to refer back to the notes taken during the Overview and Tutorial when answering a practice comprehension question. Help the student apply the methods illustrated in the Tutorial when selecting an answer choice.

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Every state has raised the bar for student reading achievement. Today's students are expected to graduate high school empowered to meet the challenges of college and career. This includes attaining a level of reading proficiency that allows them to understand highly complex texts in a deep and meaningful way.

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A great accountability resources for you and your students.

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Follow this link to another great skills resource

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Teachers may utilize Offline Skill Worksheets to provide students with additional practice working with specific comprehension skills. Worksheets include both a teaching page and a practice page, and can be used with individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

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Has your student been put on hold?  Here's how to get them back on track.

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Keep in mind the Reading Plus Grade level fluency goal.

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Want to see how Reading Plus meets the needs of your students? Check out these word counts and lexile levels for each reading level.

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Here is a letter that explains the Reading Plus Program, the parent can also access similiar information from the student dashboard.

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Our Reading Plus welcome letter is also translated into Spanish.

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The Student Instructional Summary is a powerful report. Here is a letter to share with parents.

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Info on the Instructional Summary Report

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Info on the Instructional Summary Report

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This is one of our most powerful reports. It condenses all pertinent information about a student's progress. Be sure to share at IEPs and parent conferences.