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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