REWARDS

The REWARDS family of reading and writing intervention materials is specifically designed for struggling learners in grades 4 to 12. Educators have embraced REWARDS as a powerful short-term intervention that results in long-term literacy achievement. The program supports any core curriculum and offers flexible implementation options. The ultimate goal of the REWARDS family is to increase fluency rates, deepen comprehension of informational and content-area texts, and increase precision in sentence writing.

The REWARDS Program is a research-based and validated reading and writing program. The overall goals of the REWARDS family of products are to:

• Increase students fluency, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension skills
• Increase student success in content-area classes: specifically science and social studies
• Provide students practice with the types of questions they are asked on state tests
• Refine students sentence writing abilities and the overall sophistication of their writing.

The explicit and systematic REWARDS program includes ample supports for teachers. Before every lesson the teacher knows the materials needed and the preparation that needs to be done. During the lesson, the lesson plan provides recommended scripts that teachers can use to provide the instruction. The instruction follows the "I do," "we do," "you do" model:

• "I do": Teacher modeling specific skill or concept
• "We do": Teacher and students practice skill/concept together (guided practice)
• "You do": Students practice independently