Reading Explorers
Supporting Student Reading
The Reading Explorers reading program provides supplemental reading support in grades Kindergarten through fifth grades at the elementary as well as reading classes in the middle and high schools. Certified teachers provide research-based strategies to small groups of students to increase reading skills.
Learn to Read/Read to Learn
Pat Corra, Reading Explorer Teacher
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Hours: M,T,Th,F  8:15am-12:15pm
Phone # 425-837-5583

• Who do we serve?

        At the Elementary level program, eligibility in Reading Explorers is based on:

• Screening for phonological awareness and letter sounds in Kindergarten

• Scores on other assessments, such as DRA, Stanford 10, and WASL

• Teacher recommendation

• English Language Learning students need to have a score of 3 on the LAS in order to be eligible for Reading Explorers

• Students with a reading IEP are not eligible

• Program Overview
  
  Our new curriculum is called Reading Explorers, a research-based program that provides structure and materials to support young readers and writers. Students will have the opportunity to build literacy skills through reading, writing, word work activities and a home connection. The lessons are book specific and stress good comprehension skills, oral and written communication skills, and all leaning modalities using developmentally appropriate fiction and non-fiction genres. We will be using the Start-Up Phonics with our first grade students, the PathFinders with second and third grade students, and Reading TrailBlazers with fourth and fifth grade students.
   

• Start-Up Phonics
  
  Lessons for kindergarten and first grade students will:
   

• Build a foundation for successful phonemic awareness and phonics instruction

• Explicitly teach short vowels and consonants

• Support and motivate all learners

  
   

•  PathFinders
   

  Lessons for second and third grade students will:
   

• Provide support in listening skills, reading comprehension, reading fluency and phonetic awareness

• Allow students a positive reading experience

• Build confidence and improve classroom performance
   

•  Reading TrailBlazers

  Lessons for fourth and fifth graders will:
   

• Emphasize comprehension strategies, multiple writing types, and reading for meaning and fluency

• Practice using higher order thinking skills to problem solve

• Build confidence and improve students' test-taking abilities

Links:	Fun & Helpful Websites:
DOLCE Sight Word List	Starfall
Tips to Try at Home	PBS Kids
Activities that Stimulate Phonemic Awareness	Reading Lady
Reading Rockets	Building Readers Newsletter Word Study Skills