Reading Academy

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Reading Academy

• Mrs. DeFilippo
• Miss Garstka

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What is the Academy of Reading?

• The Academy of Reading is a comprehensive,
  interactive, multimedia reading program designed
  to enhance literacy skills in your child
• AutoSkill has invested over 20 years into
  developing and testing the Academy of Reading!!!

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How the Academy works

• The Academy of Reading breaks the complex skill
  of reading into manageable tasks, which students
  learn progressively in a logical sequence
• Students are allowed to practice as much as they
  need to master each skill
• Each student is able to progress at his own pace

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Why the Academy works

• The Academy of Reading teaches the sounds, and
  patterns of sounds and letter found in our
  language so that a student learns to break the
  code of the written word
• Word attack skills will begin to improve
• Students will learn each skill until it is
  automatic, so no longer will need to think
  consciously about performing these skills
• Now, conscious effort can be applied to
  comprehension strategies as well as other
  thinking processes!

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Academy of Reading Design Principles

• The Academy of Reading is designed according to
  three fundamental learning principles
• 1.) Integrates an Automaticity Model of Learning
• 2.) Incorporates Important Behavioral Principles
• 3.) Incorporates a Process Model in Reading

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Integrates an Automaticity Model of Learning

• Each complex skill is broken down into a series
  of component subskills
• Learning each of these subskills to a level of
  rapid automatic responding facilitates
  comprehension, retention, and interpretation of
  material

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Incorporates Important Behavioral Principles

• Students are given constant feedback throughout
  the program, including messages of
  congratulations when they are successful
• Doing so actively engages them in the learning
  process, builds confidence, and makes learning
  permanent
• Corrective feedback provides ongoing learning
  opportunities

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Incorporates a Process Model in Reading

• The Academy of Reading quickly establishes a
  basic foundation for reading. Students
  systematically work up to higher-level reading
  skills such as comprehension.
• Students will train in each of the following
  areas
• Phonemic Awareness
• Reading Subskills
• Comprehension

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Phonemic Awareness

• Phonemic Awareness is the ability to identify and
  manipulate the component sounds (or phonemes) of
  language
• It is imperative that students develop Phonemic
  Awareness skills, since this ability is a major
  indicator of future reading proficiency.

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Reading Subskills

• Here, students will make gains with the basic
  skills they developed in Phonemic Awareness to
  hear and manipulate phonemes
• Students will develop the visual,
  auditory-visual, and oral skills required for
  reading proficiency
• Once these reading skills are firmly rooted,
  students are freed from their tie to the
  mechanics of reading and can begin to comprehend
  what they read

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Comprehension

• This section helps students develop their
  vocabulary and the ability to identify the main
  idea.
• They will understand relationships, make
  inferences, note specific facts and details, and
  retain information

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Thank you!

• Mrs. DeFilippo and Miss Garstka want to thank you
  for taking the time to view our site.