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With SRA's Early Reading Tutor you provide high quality, research-proven instruction for supplemental or Tier 2 intervention to help your students in Grades K-2 become successful readers.Ìý The program uses explicit and intense instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency.Ìý The brief 10-minute sessions allow students to remain in their core reading program and help ypu quickly bring them up to grade level.

³§¸é´¡â€™s Early Reading Tutor provides 110 well researched, carefully planned lessons that have been shown to increase reading performance

• Lessons include skills identified as essential to strong reading performance—phonemic awareness, phonics, passage reading, spelling, andÌý fluency
• Each offers intense, explicit, carefully instruction to ensure that students overcome common reading problems
• Each provides the practice and consistent review of skills at-risk learners need to overcome gaps.
• Each includes measures that indicate when it is necessary to reteach a critical skill error-correction so learners stay on task and are successful.

Well-structured tutoring sessions help paraprofessionals and volunteers fill the role of reading instructor.

• Straightforward lessons effectively show tutors exactly what and how to teach.
• Detailed scripts help tutors communicate what the student needs to learn in clear, consistent language.
• Fast paced activities help tutors move quickly from one skill to the next and stay on schedule to increase the time spent on reading.
• Carefully sequenced, day-to-day exercises provide the structure needed to develop self-sufficiency and grade-level reading skills.

Regular assessment allows instruction to be adapted to the individual learner.

• Placement procedures provide multiple points for program entry so students receive instruction at the appropriate skill level.
• Mastery Tests appear at the end of every fifth lesson to pinpoint problem areas and ensure that learning is taking place.
• Lesson progress is tailored to each student based on mastery of skills—students may advance to the next Mastery Test, continue with the next lesson or repeat lessons for remediation.
• Directions for using DIBELS for screening, progress monitoring, and decision making give you confidence that the intervention is closing the performance gap.

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