A Brief Summary of

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• Who created it?
– Scholastic
• For whom?
– Students grades 4-12 who are reading below
grade level
• When was it created?
– Originally published in the late 1990s, the
Enterprise Edition came out in early 2006

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 PHONEMIC
AWARENESS

WRITING PHONICS

SKILLS
DEVELOPED
THROUGH
READ 180
SPELLING FLUENCY

TEXT
VOCABULARY
COMPREHENSION

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 Instructional Model

SMALL-GROUP
READ 180
DIRECT
SOFTWARE
INSTRUCTION

WHOLE-GROUP WHOLE-GROUP
DIRECT WRAP-UP
INSTRUCTION
20 minutes
20 minutes MODELED AND
INDEPENDENT
READING

60 minutes

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 Step 1:
WHOLE-GROUP DIRECT
INSTRUCTION
• 20 minutes
• Includes the whole class
• Led by the teacher using the READ 180
instructional materials
• Instruction in reading, writing, and
vocabulary

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 Step 2:
SMALL-GROUP ROTATIONS
60 minutes (20 minutes each)

SMALL-GROUP
READ 180 MODELED &
DIRECT
SOFTWARE INDEPENDENT
INSTRUCTION •Students work
•Teacher works closely
independently on the
READING
with students in their •Students work to gain
computers on
rBook (student reading comprehension
individualized skill
workbook) to meet skills on books of their
practice
individual needs choice

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 Step 3:
WHOLE-GROUP WRAP-UP

• 10 minutes
• Includes the whole class
• A continuation of Step 1: whole-group
direct instruction

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 How can students be graded?
• Participation sheets where students can
earn points for each station
• Evaluating writing assignments
• Grading projects provided by READ 180
• Checking individual reports from the
READ 180 software
• Reading Counts! Quizzes
• rSkills tests
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 Assessing Progress
• Scholastic Reading Inventory tests
– Assesses students’ reading level grades 1-12
– Should be taken 3 times a year
– Helps teacher match students with the correct
books based on their reading level
– Gives students a score in lexiles. The student’s
lexile score should match the lexile scores of the
books they are reading

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Scholastic Inc. (2009). About READ 180. Retrieved May
12, 2009, from
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/over
view/faq.htm#report01

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