An effective reading program would have a high success rate for remedial and struggling readers. A reading intervention program should address fluency, alphabetic code, comprehension, and motivation. When …show more content…
A student cannot just be thrown in a program they must be placed in a program that is best fit for their needs. Certain programs can be tailored to the individual’s need, this is important because it fits into the third tier of the RTI (response to intervention) triangle.
Before looking at what makes an effective reading program, one needs to look at what makes reading instruction effective. The Learning First Alliance produced the nine components of effective reading instruction, “The first component is phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and concepts of print. These are important to reading instruction because if a student has poor phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and concepts of print, are more likely to fall behind in reading skills. Students that lack at these skills will have trouble with sound-symbol association and blending. The Learning First Alliance also added the second which focuses alphabetic code, phonics and decoding, for accurate reading the student depends on phonic knowledge. When this knowledge of phonics is present a student does not need to depend on context clues to decipher a word,