Reading Is FAME in Sioux Falls, SD
KELO-CBS
3/4/05
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“With FAME, the students are becoming confident readers because the vocabulary words taught have shown up in their everyday reading. This demonstrates that not only does FAME help to target specific reading skills, but it also helps students make connections with their life."
–MICHELE HORGER, READING SPECIALIST, PHILADELPHIA
“When reading research and real time curriculum merged in my FAME classroom, students instantly gained confidence in themselves like never before! Our students were able to experience reading success with laser methods and materials that have produced measurable growth in only one semester. FAME's successful students have also given me a much needed "booster shot" in my passion for teaching. Today, our FAME students are prepared to approach reading proficiency standards and continue their education as adolescents who can read.”
–RICHARD MONTEILH, VICE PRINCIPAL, LOS ANGELES
"About your FAME program - I just want to say it is wonderful. My daughter went through the program in her 7th and 8th grade year and will finish up on level E next semester. The program has been wonderful for her and she has had such great success that I would like for my son’s school to have it. They have no extra reading program and I feel it would be great for him and the children in his school."
–LETTER FROM PARENT OF A FAME STUDENT
"I have seen a tremendous increase in student confidence - reluctant readers are now willing readers. Confidence plays a huge role in a students’ ability to read with fluency. It is great to see junior high students get excited about word meanings through word games and computer games. My students earn extra credit when they come across their words while reading; but also if they use them correctly in class discussion or conversation."
–FAME TEACHER , OLATHE , KS
"FAME has helped me with a lot of things. For example my pronunciation, reading and to not be scared or embarrassed in front of people and it helps me to be able to understand my other classes."
–FAME STUDENT
"We are pleased to inform you that Reading Is FAME has met our stringent criteria as an example of a content-specific staff development program that increases student achievement. Congratulations. Your efforts have improved the academic success of many students and hopefully will continue to do so.”
–NATIONAL STAFF DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
“I must have said your name or FAME a hundred times this week. Our school has had many educators visit us over the past few weeks and the overwhelming majority of them leave here wanting to know more about the FAME program. I bet I could give out one FAME brochure a week because every teacher that walks into this room won’t leave until they know more about it!”
–READING COORDINATOR , NOBLE STREET CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL , CHICAGO , IL
“We are concerned that 30 percent of the students who enter Indiana high schools do not graduate in four years, even though this is average for the nation. The International Reading Association estimates that there are six million American students in grades 6-12 who need specialized help in developing their reading skills. To improve our students’ reading skills and thus increase their chances for high school graduation, we use Reading Is FAME in many middle grades schools, high schools, and state correctional facilities. The high-interest materials, methods, training, and follow-up visits provided by Girls and Boys Town are outstanding and have resulted in many students becoming successful readers and high school graduates.”
–DR. JACK W. HUMPHREY, MIDDLE GRADES READING NETWORK, UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
“FAME is an awesome program that not only increases students reading skills (and their scores on standardized tests), but also boosts their self-esteem which is evidenced in classes across the curriculum.
–KRISTY BEVER, WAMEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL, WAMEGO, KS
“The most important impact the Reading Is FAME program has had on our school district so far has been the excitement and contagion that has spread to staff as well as students with regard to improving reading skills for adolescents. The program has really opened our eyes to the impact that such a structured reading program can have on student success and on how we think about teaching reading to struggling adolescents. Overall, students in grades 7 through 12 participating in the Foundations program made gains of a little over a year’s growth for word recognition and 2 years overall growth with word attack skills after just 19 weeks of instruction. WOW!”
– LYNN DIERBERGER , AUBURN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT , AUBURN , NE
“My Foundations student (a 9th-grader reading at a 2nd-grade level) went from 50% to 100% on his spelling tests and from 18 seconds to 12 seconds on the timed tests this week. He was so happy! He went skipping out the door to his bus, clutching his progress report.... He loves the books, and all this from a kid who had never read a book before this year. He’s read three other short books on his own so far. Woo hoo!”
– ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL TEACHER , JEFFERSONVILLE , IN
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