Rite Flight: A Classroom Reading Rate Program and Rite Flight: A Classroom Comprehension Program are curricula written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia & Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children. Rite Flight programs equip teachers and reading specialists to help students increase their reading rate, fluency, and comprehension. When used as a supplement, Rite Flight programs should be integrated into a core reading program to adequately address fluency and/or comprehension.
Rite Flight programs are designed to be individual, small group or whole classroom Tier II interventions for use by classrooms, reading specialists and special education teachers with 1st – 8th grade students. It may be used for more intensive instruction within the framework of a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model.
Rite Flight: Rate differs from standard reading fluency instruction by using a method of instruction designed to promote the recognition of letter clusters within words. Students follow a repeated reading schedule that introduces the same words in isolation, in phrases and finally in stories. As a fluency component of primary grade reading remediation and instruction, Rite Flight: Rate should be introduced early in the course of instruction in letter-sound recognition and should not be delayed until after phonics has been taught.
Rite Flight programs are not intended to be used in place of a comprehensive intervention for students identified with dyslexia, as each addresses only one component of reading.
This session will address instructional strategies most appropriate for the following levels of instruction: Tier 2, 3