Increasing Student Success

These factors positively affect students’ success in reading:

• Regular opportunities to read and respond to literature, both fiction and nonfiction;
• Many opportunities for students to explore independent reading;
• Rich writing experiences;
• The opportunity to read for personally significant purposes;
• The opportunity for students to use reading as a tool for learning in all subject areas;
• Rich and varied opportunities for vocabulary development;
• Links between student background knowledge and new content presented in text;
• Opportunities to become independent readers who use varied cueing systems-semantics, syntax, and graphophonics;
• Opportunities to use recognized strategies before, during, and after reading in order to read literature, textbooks, primary and other sources successfully.

(Source: Alaska English/Language Arts Framework, 1996)