MY READING COACH

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• MY READING COACH
• Learning Something New
• Make learning simple!
• Answer your questions
• Help you help your students

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My Reading Coach is

• An instructional reading program
• Designed to stamp out illiteracy
• Developed through MindPlay, founded in 1981 by
  Judith Bliss
• Coached by Jim Larrabee, veteran speech
  pathologist

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Judith Bliss ? founder of Mindplay? 20 years
developing Educational SoftwareJim Larrabee ?
25-year veteran speech pathologist and reading
teacherGoal Stamp out
illiteracyMy Reading Coach? An instructional
reading program? Employs a sophisticated,
dynamic CAI interface? Consistent and systematic
dramatic results for struggling and
non-readers
Background
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My Reading Coach is Research Based

• A successful reading program
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Text Comprehension
• National Reading Panel

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My Reading Coach Guarantees Success

• Offers students a self-paced, individualized
  reading and remediation environment
• 61 interactive lessons on phonics, rules and word
  structure with practice activities
• 24 unique grammar lessons to teach text
  comprehension
• 200 graded reading passages to practice reading
  comprehension

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What My Reading Coach Can Do

• Develops auditory and visual discrimination
• Develops sound/letter association
• Develops auditory memory- sound sequences
• Teaches encoding and decoding of words one
  syllable to multi-syllable
• Teaches reading comprehension by teaching pause
  points, pictures in your mind, grammar lessons
  and story passages
• Side benefit increased ability to attend and
  stay on task

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Results Elementary School
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Results Middle School Improvement 11 to 19
Percentile PointsAt Risk Students
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Results High School Improvement 12 Percentile
Points
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Special Education Case Study Writing
Matthews writing sample BEFORE starting MRC
Matthews writing sample AFTER 7 hours on MRC
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Why Are We Unique?
We believe the PROCESS drives the results
Best Practices Methodology
Research Development
Research Infused
Success Guaranteed! 10 30 percentile points
Customer Support
Diagnostic Placement
Staff Development
One-on-one Teacher Emulated Instruction
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Hear the Difference
Randy after 47 lessons
Randy after Lesson 12
Willie after 28 lessons
Willie after Lesson 12
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Platinum Edition Lesson Summary Screen
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Testing
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Student Certificate
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Beginning of the Placement Test
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Ending of the Placement Test
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Introduction Screen
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Training Wheels

• Teaching Guide
• Web Training Gold Edition www.mindplay.com/goldtr
  aining

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Activity Summary Screen
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Word BuildingActivity
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Listen and FindActivity
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Reading WordsActivity
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SpellingActivity
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2 SyllableActivity
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Vowel / Sound / Stick Activity
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Review Test
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Teacher Tools

• My Reading Coach Teaching Guide
• Lesson Sequence Chart
• Word Lists
• Memory Aids and Rules
• Phonics Sheets
• Grammar Sheets
• Reading Comprehension Sheets
• Supplemental Lessons
• Reports

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Teacher Options Track and Report
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Student Reports

• Student Performance Report Phonics
• Student Performance Report Grammar
• Student Performance Report Comprehension
• Student Lesson Error Report
• Student Test Details Report (Platinum only)
• Student Test Prescription Report (Platinum only)
• Student Test Results Report (Platinum only)
• Student Attendance Report

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Class Reports

• Class Daily Lesson Plan
• Class Remediation Report
• Class Improvement Report
• Class Needs Report (Platinum only)
• Class Grammar Report
• Class Reading Comprehension Report
• Class Progress Checklist

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Roles

• Student Placement Test, Lessons, Activities and
  Review Tests
• Teacher Add Students, Monitor Progress, Support
  and Provide Remedial Help
• Administrator Add Teachers, Maintain the My
  Reading Coach Program

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My Reading Coach works!

• Success makes them believers