RESOURCE PROGRAMS

     All children have the capability and desire to learn; however, some children have a learning disability. The Resource Specialist Program is designed to help children work around their disabilities.
     The goal of the program is to provide children the necessary skills to work at grade level while reducing any frustration and fear they may have previously experienced.

AVENUES  

     Avenues is a language development program, offering daily instruction in reading and language arts.  It is designed for English learners who are in need of extra help with English. 

      Throughout the school year, your child will spend 90 minutes a day with a qualified teacher who will be helping the students in the areas where improvement is needed.  The goal is to increase your child’s reading, writing, and language ability.  The teacher will teach vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, and other important skills. 

     Avenues es un programa de desarrollo del lenguaje, que ofrece instruccion diaria en lectura y lenguaje.  Este programa esta designado para los aprendices del ingles, que necesitan ayudo extra con el idioma ingles.

     Durante el ano escolar, su hijo estara 90 minutos al dia con un maestro competente, que ayudara a los estudiantes en las areas donde necesiten majorar.  El proposito es aumentar las habilidades de su hijo en lectura, escritura y lenguaje.  El maestro ensenara vocabulario, comprension de la lectura, escritura y otras importantes habilidades.

     Avenues mas yog ib yaam uas txhawb paab cov mivnyuas kws has ob yaam lug es tsis tau txawj los paub sau ntawv, has los thaam lug, los nyeem ntawv Aakiv zoo.  Txhawb los paab cov kws has ob yaam lug es tsis keej xwb. 

     Xyoo nua, koj tug mivnyuas yuav moog nrug ib tug xibfwb uas paub qha kuam nug nci zug zuj rua ntawm nyeem ntawv, thaam los has lug, hab sau ntawv Aakiv yuav moog ntev le 90 feeb/nasthis txhua hnub rua qho kws nug tsis keej es yuav tsum paab ntxiv.  Tug xibfwb yuav qha txug le lu lug (vocabulary), nyeem ntawv kuam nkaaj sab (reading comprehension), sau ntawv (writing) hab lwm yaam kuam nug nkaaj sab ua tau.

What is Learning Tree?

Learning Tree is a research-based literacy intervention program specifically designed to re teach and remediate reading and writing skills. As students develop basic skills through practice, they apply them to reading comprehension and process writing strategies.

The Learning Tree resource program is a ten-week intervention program designed for students who score Below Basic or Basic on the CST. Learning Tree uses scientific research-based strategies for reading comprehension and writing. Trained teachers provide explicit and in-depth instruction with strategies that are integrated through standards-based instructional sequences. The research-based strategies utilized in this program are Reciprocal Teaching, Process Writing and Direct Instruction.

Learning Tree teachers instruct students to think metacognitively about their reading using strategies that help develop these cognitive functions:

Ø   Activating prior knowledge (schema)

Ø   Asking questions

Ø   Drawing inferences from the text

Ø   Creating visuals & sensory images

Ø   Retelling and synthesizing

Teachers also instruct students on how to utilize a variety of fix up strategies to repair comprehension when it breaks down. This is accomplished in small group instruction with a 1 to 6 ratio in elementary schools and a 1 to 10 ratio in middle schools.  Teachers present these concepts in a variety of ways; pace and chunk information and continuously check for student understanding