Introduction
Building Readers was developed to meet the need of primary teachers to assist students who experience reading difficulties in the first and second grade. The goal of Building Readers is to produce independent readers and writers. Teachers will learn successful strategies that they can use to tutor a child who is having difficulty learning the reading process. Building Readers provides one-on-one tutoring, five days per week, 30 minutes a day. It is supplemental to classroom instruction and lasts an average of 12-20 weeks. Each child’s daily program is discontinued when they are able to read independent of the teacher. The child will, display solid evidence of having developed a self-extending system using a variety of un-prompted strategies to read increasingly difficult text and to independently write their own sentences.
