This course is an elective designed to provide intensive reading intervention outside of the general education English class.

• Students are taught critical skills and strategies needed to be more successful readers.

 • Students engage in daily reading activities to promote mastery and generalization of skills taught in the class.

 • Daily reading activities include:

 - Direct instruction to improve reading decoding skills.

- Timed readings of the 1,000 most common words in written English.

- Reading fluency and reading comprehension practice using the Read Plus program.

 - Reading novels and short stories are the many resources used to practice reading.