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TEACH
is a resource book of instructional methods and fifty-five task cards that
builds a child's pre-academic skills specific to reading and the language
arts. As the companion instructional element of the SEARCH
& TEACH program, TEACH
provides the rationale, the step by step methodology, and the teaching materials
necessary for intervention with children who are found to be vulnerable
to learning failure as determined by SEARCH.
TEACH organizes a program of learning
according to an individual child's SEARCH
profile. As such, TEACH considers a
child's strong and weak academic areas and prescribes appropriate instructional
tasks basic to reading and the language arts.
The TEACH
program prioritizes pre-reading tasks from simple to complex and organizes
them into a practical plan of five clusters as ascertained by the results
of the SEARCH test. These clusters
include:
- Visual
- Visual-motor
- Auditory
- Body-image
- Intermodal
skill clusters
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Photo:Susan Prevette
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Educational
intervention is provided by resource room teachers and educational assistants
who work with children individually or in small groups. Typically, groups
meet three to four times per week. A variety of settings are appropriate
for the TEACH phase, ranging from:
- One-on-one
instruction
- Small
groups of similarly profiled children
- Resource
rooms (pullout model)
- A small
area within a classroom (classroom support model)
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