Provides short non-fiction selections designed to
improve specific reading skills: main idea, vocabulary, sequence, factual recall, inference, and drawing conclusions.
Benefits of AUTOreading include group administration, automatic scoring, items covering broad reading skills, information about each student's automaticity
with specific reading skills, and the capacity to be used for progress monitoring.
Hampton Township Middle School's reading support program for sixth and seventh graders gets students up to speed
in specific reading skills.
However, existing evidence also suggests that highly structured tutoring programmes provide the best effects on outcomes (i.e. where tutors are well trained, lessons focus
on specific reading skills and sessions are timetabled systematically).
According to the FCAT creators, each question on the practice tests corresponds to
a specific reading skill or benchmark.
There are many FAST ™ reports that include details about a student's
specific reading skills and needs.
Specific reading skills and strategies — including questioning, graphic organizers, and monitoring techniques — are presented using explicit instruction, with hands - on lesson models and practice.
Each discussion card is tagged with
the specific reading skill it targets.