Title: Archived: SUCCESS FOR ALL
Headings: Success for All
August 1993
Success for All
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Content: From grades two through five, students use school- or district-selected reading materials, basals, and trade books. At this level, partner reading, exercises in identifying characters, settings, and problem solutions of narratives and in summarizing stories, writing, and direct instruction in reading comprehension skills, together with a form of cooperative learning, are all used to develop reading skills based on the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) program. The teachers and tutors complete briefing forms to communicate periodically about students' specific problems and needs. Tutors: Based on evidence that one-to-one tutoring is the most effective form of instruction known, specially trained certified teachers work individually with all students in grades one through three who are not yet reading at grade level. Priority is given to first grade students as a means of preventing the need for remediation. Special education: Every effort is made to address a student's learning problems within the regular classroom, supplemented with tutoring. Tutors evaluate the student's strengths and weaknesses and develop strategies to teach according to individual needs. In some schools, special education teachers work as tutors and reading teachers with students identified as learning disabled as well as with other students experiencing learning problems.