Rosedale Elementary School is a Reading Mastery School.

Rosedale Elementary has made a strong comitment to Literacy. Through the use of the Reading Mastery Program Rosedale has seen a marked increase in the decoding and comprehension abilities of our students.

Features of Reading Mastery:

* Strategy-based instruction that allows students to learn more efficiently

* Intensive, explicit, systematic teaching to help students achieve a high rate of success

* Carefully scaffolded lessons that build confidence and independence

* Ongoing assessments and specific guidelines for remediation to help you make effective instructional decisions

* Addresses all five essential components of Reading: phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension

* Provide spelling instruction to help students make the connection between decoding and spelling patterns

* Develop decoding, word recognition and comprehension skills that transfer to other subject areas

Links to Reading Mastery Research and Articles:

THE RESEARCH BASE FOR READING MASTERY, SRA
Bonnie Grossen, Ph.D.
University of Oregon