Sharing Good Practice
Literacy programmes that
are worth trying
By Betina Fuentes
Reading A-Z
An exciting program that has been
introduced to many ADEC teachers
this year is Reading A-Z. This site
offers leveled stories and associated
activities for readers from level aa
basic sight words to Z2 approximately
grade 5 and up. This program has
a few benefits for teachers such as
lesson planning aid, differentiation
tool, and easy to use fluency and
comprehension checker. The levels are
correlated with other reading gauges
such as DRA and Lexile levels, making
it easy to integrate into an already
existing classroom library. Assessing
students at the beginning of each term
and assigning levels encour vW2VW