We have been using Waterford Early Reading Program which is now a Pearson Product and we have been very happy with it. It does not really provide strategy instruction but it covers both phonemic awareness, phonics,sight word practice, comprehension and some language arts structures. It has lots of music, uses rhymes and traditional tales and decodable type books, reinforces sight words and phonics skills (word families) and fluency practice and lets the kids practice at their appropriate level.
It is a K-2 program that can be used in Pre-K and in special education classes. We are experimenting with using it to help form groups for our emerging RTI plan. The kids are engaged and in our inner city school it is fun to hear them making connections between what they hear on the computer and what they discover in the classroom instruction. It is also good for English Learners. And the videos that come with the student materials in Level 1 are great for getting literacy materials into the homes of our students with siblings coming along! It is not cheap, but we wrote a grant that helped with the cost. As with anything, an educator keeping an eye on the students' progress or non-progress and intervening where appropriate is essential. It has been available for quite a few years, is research based and also has research behind it's implementation. Hope this helps and I hope it isn't too off topic. On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:31:48 -0700, K Dombroske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for ways to incorporate reserach-based lit instruction into > our scholl's computer lab. Anyone have any ideas or ways they have used > a computer lab to promote literacy? I'm interested in all differnt > grade/ age levels. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
