Why It Works
Did you know that researchers have estimated that there are
approximately 440,000 students currently in school with a
total sight vocabulary of less than 50 words?
Traditional reading programs are effective for most students,
but they don't work for the five to ten percent that give
teachers 95% of their headaches. That's because traditional
reading material doesn't provide these students with the three
elements that are necessary for a successful reading experience:
- Adequate repetition,
- Appropriate sentence structure and
- Meaningful story content.
Failure Free Reading provides these elements in age appropriate
modules for beginning readers, at-risk students, ESL students,
and special education students.
The program has a remarkable 85% or higher success rate
with lowest literacy readers. The program’s primary
goal is to give lowest literacy readers the immediate opportunity
to improve their vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The
program targets and is most effectively used with at-risk,
ESL, special education and other students in the lowest 20%
of the reading population – especially those identified
by Torgesen (2000) as “treatment resisters” –
those who do not respond to traditional remedial techniques.
Failure Free Reading presents age appropriate materials within
a multi-sensory format using practices based on direct instruction
and meta-cognitive strategies. More importantly, Failure Free
Reading has created instructional materials which incorporate
the principles of cumulative learning (McCormick, 1994), and
stress the therapeutic necessity of (1.) repetition within
multiple instructional contexts (Gates, 1930, Hargis et. al.,
1992, McCormick, 1994), (2.) control for syntax and semantics
(Harber, 1979, Wigg and Semel,1980), and (3.) providing immediate
performance feedback (National Reading Panel). |
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