Program Description

Students qualifying for literacy services are placed in programs based on their area of need.  In addition to an intervention program, students also receive imbedded instruction on required skills in each ELA classroom.

Comprehension Students

SOAR TO SUCCESS- http://www.capousd.org/interventions/soartosuccess.htm

 Soar to Success has been developed to help students learn to apply and use comprehension, decoding strategies, and skills of an effective reader as they read across the curriculum.

Vocabulary Students

REWARDS- http://store.cambiumlearning.com/resource.aspx?page=ProgramOverview&site=sw&parentId=019005266

Rewards is a specialized reading program designed to teach secondary students a flexible strategy for decoding long words and to increase their oral and silent reading fluency.

Decoding Students

SRA DECODING-www.capousd.org/interventions/crdecoding.htm

SRA Corrective Reading Decoding program is designed to increase students’ decoding skills so they are able to read with greater fluency and comprehension. This program also includes extensive practice in comprehension that helps students read carefully and attend to details.

8thGrade ELA Skill Focus 

1st Quarter1	2nd Quarter	3rd Quarter	4th Quarter
Unit 1- Fiction/Nonfiction	Unit 2 Types of Nonfiction: Narrative,Expository,Persuasive	Unit 3 Short Stories	Unit 4 Poetry
Prediction Author’s Purpose Plot, conflict, Resolution, Mood, Author's style	Main Idea, Fact and opinion, Narrative Essay, Biographical and autobiographical Essay-support	Compare and contrast, Inferences Setting, Character traits, Point of view, Theme	Context clues, Paraphrasing, Sound devices, Figurative language, Poetic forms, Imagery

 

***Please note that the above programs and skill descriptions are plan guidelines only.  Depending on the individual literacy needs of students, instruction/programs are adjusted accordingly.