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Developing your English language learners’ reading skills is the surest way to help them succeed in school and beyond. Successful Reader™ is a revolutionary program that will help you improve the skill areas that have the fastest, greatest effect on the reading achievement of your ELL students.
- . Rather than focusing on just one dimension of language development, Successful Reader provides the integrated approach students need to develop English language skills in reading, writing, and conversation.
- The Successful Reader Book Club offers a friendly and supportive environment to develop language skills. By incorporating instruction with an interactive and social component, teachers can foster collaboration, provide community, and inspire motivation.
- Reading a wide variety of thoughtfully selected books and discussing the characters and events in the books helps students understand and interpret American culture, customs, background, and experiences. This, in turn, helps improve students’ language development.
- Successful Reader provides English language learners with excellent models of reading by way of the professionally recorded audiobooks. Students mimic those models as they read silently in their own copies of the books, which helps them become more confident in their further reading.
- Unlike other programs that teach vocabulary in a rote manner by having students learn specific meanings for words, Successful Reader includes robust vocabulary activities such as learning how words are used, comparing similar and dissimilar words, and expanding vocabulary through a variety of visual activities.
- The strength of the Successful Reader program is that it includes direct and explicit strategy instruction accompanied by modeling, practice, and reflection. This approach is highly successful with a wide range of learners, but is specifically effective with English language learners.
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