Reading Programs

Accelerated Reading Program At the beginning of the year the school administers a Star or Star Early Literacy test to all the K-5 grade students. The teachers analyze the Star tests and then set individual goals for their students. They set three main goals-points, book level average, and comprehension average. They then as a class work towards Reading Renaissance Model Class which is twelve weeks of them meeting those individual goals. They read for sixty minutes each day and take comprehension tests over the books they read. This year Konawa has fourteen out of eighteen teachers who have already made Model Teachers and are working towards becoming Master Educators which is the same process for eighteen consecutive weeks. Last year Konawa certified as a Master School in Reading Renaissance. Student Readers 1

Focus on Reading The FOR program is a web based program that works on visual memory, fluency, and comprehension. It is used by Jill Ruth,head instructor, Amy Eropkin, JOM tutor, and Debbie Watters 5th grade reading specialist.

It is used as a pull out program to strengthen the reading skills of our students. Mrs. Ruth and Mrs. Eropikin have fifty-two students from 1-4th grades who come to them for thirty minutes each day. They are trying to remediate reading difficulties of the students.