3. REWARDS INTERVENTION
PROGRAM
REWARDS is reading
and writing program
aimed to teach
intermediate and
secondary students a
flexible strategy for
decoding long words.
REWARDS increases
oral and silent reading
fluency.
Supports content-area
success
Builds background
knowledge in Science and
Social Studies
Explicit systematic
approach
Tier II, Response to
Intervention solution
Strategic supplemental
support
(Sopris Learning, n.d.)
REWARDS = SUCCESS
4. REWARDS INTERVENTION
PROGRAM
Emerged from Dr. Anita Archer’s ideas
Students were significantly below grade level in
reading skills
Incorporates the Gradual Release model
I do
We do
You do
Focuses on decoding long words
Identifying Prefixes, suffixes, and vowels sounds
Segmenting longer words
(Archer, Gleason, & Vachon, 2006)
5. REWARDS Intervention
helps various age groups
and subjects
• Intermediate (4th-6th
grades)
• Secondary (6th grade +)
• Plus Social Studies
(6th grades +)
• Plus Science
(6th grades +)
• Plus Writing
(6th grades +)
(Sopris Learning, n.d.)
6. REWARDS INTERMEDIATE (4-6
GRADES)
Created for students who are at or
above 2.5 grade level
Various assessments are used to
identify students
San Diego Quick Assessment
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests
Students that struggle with long
words, word identification, and oral
reading can benefit from
REWARDS (Archer et al, 2006)
(Microsoft Clipart, 2011)
7. REWARDS INTERMEDIATE
Helps with
comprehension
Improves decoding
ability of students
Helps with multisyllabic
word identification and
understanding
Expands vocabulary
Fluency will also
increase
(Archer et al, 2006)
(Microsoft Clipart, 2011)
8. REWARDS INTERMEDIATE
25 Scripted lessons
Each lesson is approx.
50 minutes per day
Evidenced based
Pretest/Posttest helps
with monitoring
Lessons 1-15 preskills
Lessons 16-25 teaches
strategies for decoding
words
Lessons include:
Oral Activities
Vowel combinations
Vowel conversions
Reading parts of a
word
Underlining vowels
Prefix & Suffix
identification (Archer et al, 2006)
(Sopris Learning, n.d
9. REWARDS INTERMEDIATE
LESSONS
Covert Strategy in a
lesson
1. Look for prefixes, suffixes,
and vowels.
2. Say the word.
3. Say the whole word.
4. Make it a real word.
The overt strategy is faded
out to help the students
move on to the covert
strategy.
Overt Strategy in a lesson
1. Circle the prefixes
2. Circles the suffixes
3. Underline the vowels
4. Say the parts of the word
5. Say the whole word
6. Make it real
EXAMPLE
Re con struc tion
(Archer et al, 2006)
10. EVIDENCED-BASED
INTERVENTIONStudy:
18 days of instruction
students showed huge gains
with the REWARDS
program over students who
were taught general
decoding lessons.(Archer, Gleason, Vachon, &
Hollenbeck, 2001)
Study:
Struggling 4th and 5th graders
who were a REWARDS group
made significant gains over
students in a control group.
(Sopris Learning, n.d.)
(Sopris Learning, n.d.)
11. REWARDS INTERVENTION
Scaffolding instructional
approach
Guided instruction leads
to independent learning
Strategies to help with
decoding multisyllabic
words
Significant improvement
for struggling readers
Comprehension
VocabularyFluency
(Archer, Gleason, Vachon, 2003)
12. REFERENCES
Archer, A., Gleason, M., Vachon, V. (2003). DECODING AND FLUENCY: FOUNDATION
SKILLS FOR STRUGGLING OLDER READERS. Learning Disability Quarterly, 26(2), 89.
Archer, A., Gleason, M., & Vachon, V. (2006). REWARDS. New York, New York: Sopris West
Educational Services.
Microsoft Clipart. (2011). Student Working [Photograph]. Retrieved from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=students&ex=1#ai:MP900427825|
Microsoft Clipart. (2011). Student Testing [Photograph]. Retrieved from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-
us/images/results.aspx?qu=students+testing&ex=1#ai:MP900408982|
Microsoft Clipart. (2011). Teacher with Student [Photograph]. Retrieved from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspxqu=student&ex=1#ai:MP900448524|mt:2|
Sopris Learning. (n.d.). The REWARDS Overview. Retrieved from
http://www.soprislearning.com/docs/librariesprovider3/other-products-
items/rewards_overview.pdf?sfvrsn=0
Sopris Learning. (n.d.). REWARDS Research. [Iage of Graph]. Retrieved from
http://www.soprislearning.com/literacy/rewards-program/research-and-results
Sopris Learning. (n.d.). REWARDS Workbooks [Photograph]. Retrieved from
http://www.soprislearning.com/literacy/rewards-program/rewards-sample
