PROACTIVE READING INTERVENTIONS
The Proactive series of reading interventions includes four reading programs, Proactive Foundation Level, Proactive Level 1, Proactive Level 2, and Proactiva. These programs are based on current and confirmed research in reading. Proactive Reading has been demonstrated through multiple research studies to be a highly effective intervention, especially for students who experience difficulty in learning to read. The Proactive Reading curriculum is published under the name SRA’s Early Interventions in Reading and is available from SRA/McGraw Hill.
Proactive Reading Foundation Level
The Foundation level of Proactive Reading is designed to prepare children for Proactive Reading Level 1 and is intended for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students.
The Proactive Reading Foundation Level Curriculum
The Proactive Reading curriculum is now being published under the name SRA’s Early Interventions in Reading. The Foundation Level curriculum includes:
- A staff development guide for each intervention teacher
- Teacher Tutor DVD that contains the staff development slide show and film clips of the intervention being presented to students (an alternative format to the DVD is a VHS tape that contains film clips of the intervention and a set of overhead transparencies of the staff development slide show)
- An Early Interventions in Reading Foundation Level kit that contains all the teaching components:
- Teacher’s Editions A, B, C
- Activity Books A, B, C
- Answer Key
- Story-Time Readers
- Story-Time Readers Blackline Masters
- Challenge Stories
- Letter-Sound Cards
- Tricky Word Cards
- Mini Vowel and Consonant Digraph Cards
- Maxwell the Puppet
- Lesson Mastery Sheet
- Placement and Assessment Blackline Masters
- Teacher Tutor
SRA’s Early Interventions in Reading is available from SRA/McGraw Hill.
Proactive Level 1
Proactive Reading Level 1 is a reading intervention for struggling beginning readers that provides intensive small-group instruction that develops phonemic awareness, phonetic decoding, reading fluency, and comprehension. It is designed to ensure few student errors and to provide every student with the best opportunity to succeed.
Proactive scaffolds elements of tasks initially beyond the student’s ability, permitting the students to concentrate on and complete only those elements within their range of competence. Lessons are designed to present new information in ways that allow students to assimilate and integrate the information into existing schema. Students move from one lesson to the next only as they achieve mastery of content. Mastery is defined as 100 percent performance accuracy on an activity by every student. Proactive lessons move at a rapid pace, and there is constant interchange between teacher and students, features of the intervention that maximize academic engagement.
In a typical lesson, students play word games designed to promote phonological awareness, practice sounding-out words composed of previously taught letter-sound correspondences, spell words from dictation based on their sound-symbol correspondences, practice automatic recognition of words that do not conform to alphabetic rules, read and reread connected text comprised of previously taught phonic elements or sight words, and apply simple comprehension strategies to this text. A typical lesson consists of 7-10 short activities that encompass multiple strands of content (i.e., phonemic awareness, alphabetic decoding/encoding, text fluency, comprehension strategies). While time dedicated to each activity varies by the nature of the content to learn, no activity requires more than 7 to 10 minutes on any given day.
Teachers follow a highly detailed, prescriptive lesson plan that fully explicates each aspect of each activity. An overarching teaching routine repeated throughout the entire curriculum comprises the instructor modeling new content, providing guided practice for students, and implementing independent practice for every activity.
The Proactive Reading Level 1 Curriculum
Level 1 is now being published under the name SRA’s Early Interventions in Reading and includes the following.
- A staff development guide for each intervention teacher
- Teacher Tutor DVD that contains the staff development slide show and film clips of the intervention being presented to students (an alternative format to the DVD is a VHS tape that contains film clips of the intervention and a set of overhead transparencies of the staff development slide show)
- An Early Interventions in Reading kit that contains all the teaching components:
- Teacher’s Editions A, B, C
- Activity Books A, B, C
- Answer Key
- Story-Time Readers
- Story-Time Readers Blackline Masters
- Challenge Stories
- Letter-Sound Cards
- Tricky Word Cards
- Mini Vowel and Consonant Digraph Cards
- Maxwell the Puppet
- Lesson Mastery Sheet
- Placement and Assessment Blackline Masters
- Teacher Tutor
SRA’s Early Interventions in Reading is available from SRA/McGraw Hill.
Proactive Reading Level 2
Proactive Reading Level 2 is a reading intervention for struggling beginning readers that provides intensive small-group instruction.
Links to:
Description of Proactive Level 2
Product
Description of Proactive Foundation Level Intervention
Description of Proactive Level 1 Intervention
Description of Proactiva Intervention
Description of Proactive Foundation Level Product
Description of Proactive Level I Product (SRA’s Early Interventions in
Reading)
Description of Proactiva Product
The Proactive Reading Level 2 Curriculum
The Level 2 curriculum is now published under the name SRA’s Early Interventions in Reading and will be available in 2006.
Proactiva
The Proactiva reading intervention is designed for Spanish-speaking children in the first grade.
The Proactiva Curriculum will be available soon.