REWARDS INTERVENTION PROGRAMCrissy Hancock

CIED 4123

April 25, 2013

Penny Ezell and Angelia Arguello

REWARDS

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DevelopmentStrategies (Microsoft Clipart, 2011)

REWARDS INTERVENTION PROGRAM

REWARDS is reading and writing program aimed to teach intermediate and secondary students a flexible strategy for decoding long words.

REWARDS increases oral and silent reading fluency.

Supports content-area success

Builds background knowledge in Science and Social Studies

Explicit systematic approach

Tier II, Response to Intervention solution

Strategic supplemental support

(Sopris Learning, n.d.)

REWARDS = SUCCESS

REWARDS INTERVENTION PROGRAM Emerged from Dr. Anita Archer’s ideas

Students were significantly below grade level in reading skills

Incorporates the Gradual Release model I do We do You do

Focuses on decoding long words Identifying Prefixes, suffixes, and vowels

sounds Segmenting longer words(Archer, Gleason, & Vachon, 2006)

REWARDS Intervention helps various age groups and subjects

• Intermediate (4th-6th grades)

• Secondary (6th grade +)

• Plus Social Studies (6th grades +)

• Plus Science (6th grades +)

• Plus Writing (6th grades +) (Sopris Learning, n.d.)

REWARDS INTERMEDIATE (4-6 GRADES)

Created for students who are at or above 2.5 grade level

Various assessments are used to identify students

San Diego Quick Assessment Woodcock Reading Mastery

Tests Students that struggle with

long words, word identification, and oral reading can benefit from REWARDS

(Archer et al, 2006)

(Microsoft Clipart, 2011)

REWARDS INTERMEDIATE

Helps with comprehension

Improves decoding ability of students

Helps with multisyllabic word identification and understanding

Expands vocabulary Fluency will also

increase

(Archer et al, 2006) (Microsoft Clipart, 2011)

REWARDS INTERMEDIATE

25 Scripted lessons Each lesson is approx.

50 minutes per day Evidenced based Pretest/Posttest helps

with monitoring Lessons 1-15 preskills Lessons 16-25

teaches strategies for decoding words

Lessons include: Oral Activities Vowel combinations Vowel conversions Reading parts of a

word Underlining vowels Prefix & Suffix

identification (Archer et al, 2006)

(Sopris Learning, n.d.)

REWARDS INTERMEDIATE LESSONS

Covert Strategy in a lesson1. Look for prefixes, suffixes,

and vowels.

2. Say the word.

3. Say the whole word.

4. Make it a real word.

The overt strategy is faded out to help the students move on to the covert strategy.

Overt Strategy in a lesson1. Circle the prefixes

2. Circles the suffixes

3. Underline the vowels

4. Say the parts of the word

5. Say the whole word

6. Make it real

EXAMPLE

Re con struc tion

(Archer et al, 2006)

EVIDENCED-BASED INTERVENTION

Study:

18 days of instruction students showed huge gains with the REWARDS program over students who were taught general decoding lessons. (Archer, Gleason, Vachon, &

Hollenbeck, 2001)

Study: Struggling 4th and 5th graders who were a REWARDS group made significant gains over students in a control group.(Sopris Learning, n.d.)

(Sopris Learning, n.d.)

REWARDS INTERVENTION

Scaffolding instructional approach

Guided instruction leads to independent learning

Strategies to help with decoding multisyllabic words

Significant improvement for struggling readers

Comprehension

VocabularyFluency

(Archer, Gleason, Vachon, 2003)

REFERENCES

Archer, A., Gleason, M., Vachon, V. (2003). DECODING AND FLUENCY: FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR STRUGGLING OLDER READERS. Learning Disability Quarterly, 26(2), 89.

Archer, A., Gleason, M., & Vachon, V. (2006). REWARDS. New York, New York: Sopris West Educational Services.

Microsoft Clipart. (2011). Student Working [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=students&ex=1#ai:MP900427825|

Microsoft Clipart. (2011). Student Testing [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=students+testing&ex=1#ai:MP900408982|

Microsoft Clipart. (2011). Teacher with Student [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspxqu=student&ex=1#ai:MP900448524|mt:2|

Sopris Learning. (n.d.). The REWARDS Overview. Retrieved from http://www.soprislearning.com/docs/librariesprovider3/other-products-items/rewards_overview.pdf?sfvrsn=0

Sopris Learning. (n.d.). REWARDS Research. [Iage of Graph]. Retrieved from http://www.soprislearning.com/literacy/rewards-program/research-and-results

Sopris Learning. (n.d.). REWARDS Workbooks [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.soprislearning.com/literacy/rewards-program/rewards-sample