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Reading
All of
the elementary schools in Lexington use the Scott Foresman
Reading Program. Scott Foresman Reading offers a comprehensive
literacy program of reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing,
and thinking, directly supporting Lexington's grade-level literacy
benchmarks. The goal, both of the Lexington Public Schools and
Scott Foresman Reading, is to develop independent readers, articulate
writers and speakers, and discerning listeners and viewers.
Scott Foresman Reading supports the five critical areas of reading
instruction, as identified by the National Reading Panel Report:
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Text
Comprehension. Through the wide array of materials provided by
Scott Foresman, your child will have access to grade-appropriate
reading selections, concepts, and vocabulary.
In a
typical procedure for a reading activity:
•We ask children to relate their prior knowledge to the material to be
read.
•They make predictions about the text before and during reading in
their reading log.
•They pose basic questions in setting the purpose for reading.
•They are asked to justify their interpretation with specific evidence
from the text.
•The basic story structure is analyzed; including the characters,
setting, problem, solution and conclusion. The elements are
reinforced in many settings: as a class, in groups, and through
individual work.
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