Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program

The purpose of the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program is to advance literacy skills, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing, for students from birth through Grade 12, including limited English-proficient students and students with disabilities.

Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program

This document shows how Read and Rise® supports the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program, using criteria drawn from the national FY 2011 Application.
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KEY CRITERIA FOR 21st CCLC	Scholastic Take-Home Book Packs
1. Provide opportunities for all students to meet the State's proficient and advanced levels of student academic achievement, particularly in the areas of reading/language arts, math, and science.	Scholastic Take-Home Book Packs for Grades PreK-12 support the common core and state standards by providing high-quality, authentic literature in a wide variety of subjects and genres. The parent and community activity packs foster family involvement and reinforce at-home learning. Book packs provide components to support a balanced literacy program: Cross-curricular Content: A math title is included in every nonfiction Grades K-5 book pack Build Reading Accuracy: Students read familiar books over and over, while building fluency with expression Research-based Strategies: Reading practice strengthens skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension through reading activities Book Packs provide Reading
2. Use effective methods and instructional practices that are based on scientifically based research that:	Research tells us that, without practice, students lose reading skills, and that children from lower-income families lose the most. The results in children who typically score lower on the reading tests than their counterparts. Tw-thirds of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income

KEY CRITERIA FOR 21st CCLC

Scholastic Take-Home Book Packs

1. Provide opportunities for all students to meet the State's proficient and advanced levels of student academic achievement, particularly in the areas of reading/language arts, math, and science.

Scholastic Take-Home Book Packs for Grades PreK-12 support the common core and state standards by providing high-quality, authentic literature in a wide variety of subjects and genres. The parent and community activity packs foster family involvement and reinforce at-home learning. Book packs provide components to support a balanced literacy program:

Cross-curricular Content: A math title is included in every nonfiction Grades K-5 book pack
Build Reading Accuracy: Students read familiar books over and over, while building fluency with expression
Research-based Strategies: Reading practice strengthens skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension through reading activities
Book Packs provide Reading

2. Use effective methods and instructional practices that are based on scientifically based research that:

Research tells us that, without practice, students lose reading skills, and that children from lower-income families lose the most. The results in children who typically score lower on the reading tests than their counterparts.

Tw-thirds of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income

Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program

Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program

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