READING INTERVENTION & ENRICHMENT
Soar to Success Reading Intervention Program
Faith Christian School offers a reading remediation class for third, fourth, and fifth grade students who are below average in reading and writing. The students work in small multi-age groups of up to six students. The third and fourth grade students work together as one group, and the fifth grade students make up a separate group. The third and fourth grade “Soar to Success” group meets four days per week for forty-five minutes per class period.
The fifth grade group meets three times per week for forty-five minutes. The students are coached using the Soar to Success Reading Intervention Program. This program stresses reading comprehension, fluency, decoding skills, and writing using the reciprocal teaching method. The books that are included in Soar to Success are high interest, age appropriate, and cover a variety of genres and subjects. They progressively increase in difficulty as the students move through the levels. Soar to Success has proven to be effective and fun for our students.
Junior Great Books Accelerated Reading Program
Faith Christian School offers a reading enrichment course for third, fourth, and fifth grade students who are academically gifted in reading, language arts, and thinking skills. The students are taken out of the regular classroom and join a small multi-age group of up to twelve students. The third and fourth grade students work together as one class, and the fifth grade students make up a separate group. The “Great Books” class meets four days per week for fifty minutes per class period.
The students use the Junior Great Books Curriculum of interpretive reading, writing, and discussion. This curriculum stresses reading comprehension, excellence in writing, critical thinking, and effective speaking and listening skills. The stories that are included in the Junior Great Books Curriculum are rich works of literature by acclaimed authors. As students interact with the stories in the text, comparisons are made between the story, the author’s purpose, and Biblical truth. The Junior Great Books Curriculum proves to be challenging and fun for our students.