The REWARDS Program is a research-based and validated reading intervention program. There are five components:

• REWARDS Intermediate for grades 4-5 and as an intervention for grades 4-6
• REWARDS Secondary (Original) as an intervention for grades 6-12
• REWARDS Plus Social Studies for grades 6-12 and as an intervention for grades 6-12
• REWARDS Science for grades 6-12 and as an intervention for grades 6-12
• REWARDS Writing for grades 5-7 and as an intervention for grades 5-12

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REWARDS (Intermediate Level) was designed for students in grades 4, 5 and 6 who read at or above a 2.5 grade level and have difficulty reading long words.

Based on the original REWARDS program, REWARDS (Intermediate Level) is a reading intervention program designed to teach intermediate students (grades 4-6) a flexible strategy for decoding long words and to increase their oral and silent reading fluency.

Like the original program, REWARDS (Intermediate Level) teaches students to:

How is REWARDS (Intermediate Level) different from REWARDS Secondary–Original Level?

Please click on the following PDFs to view sample materials from REWARDS Intermediate.

REWARDS (Intermediate Level) contains twenty-five 50-minute lessons.

Lessons 1-15
The first 15 lessons present the preskills necessary for applying the flexible decoding strategy taught in REWARDS (Intermediate Level).

Lessons 16-25
All of the preskills are incorporated into the flexible decoding strategy that is the heart of REWARDS (Intermediate Level). Students put the REWARDS strategy to work:

REWARDS (Intermediate Level) Teacher’s Guide includes decoding and fluency assessments to measure students’ progress.

The pre/posttest of word recognition/decoding:

The generalization test of word recognition/decoding:

The pre/post-fluency assessment:

REWARDS (Intermediate Level) was created specifically for students who are in 4th, 5th, or 6th grade and are reading at or above a 2.5 grade level, but are lacking word identification skills and are slow oral readers.

Because of its flexible structure and short duration, REWARDS (Intermediate Level) can be successfully used with a variety of students including those who speak English as a Second Language and those in general and special education, Title I, summer-school and after-school, tutoring, and pull-out programs.

REWARDS is the original program and is recommended for struggling students in grades 6-12 who read at or above a 2.5 grade level and have difficulty reading multisyllabic words.

REWARDS is an intense, short-duration intervention program that uses teacher-directed instruction, requires minimal teacher training, and aligns with components of scentifically based reading research. It explicitly teaches decoding and fluency with an integrated approach. By implementing REWARDS, educators will help struggling readers:

Please click on the following PDFs to view sample materials from REWARDS Secondary:

REWARDS comprises twenty 50-minute lessons.

Lessons 1-12 involve activities that develop preskills needed for applying the REWARDS decoding strategy:

Lessons 13-20 give students the chance to put the REWARDS strategy to work:

The REWARDS program comes with a pre/posttest and a generalization test. The pre/posttest:

The generalization test:

The program was created specifically for students who:

Because of its flexible structure and short duration, REWARDS has been successfully used with a variety of students including those who speak English as a Second Language and those in general and special education, Title I, summer-school and after-school programs, tutoring programs, and pull-out/in programs.

Giving students the chance to practice the REWARDS strategy, REWARDS Plus Social Studies focuses on strengthening skills in decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and test taking to help students experience more success reading in social studies text.

Each lesson is built around social studies articles that vary in content from the Greek theater to kanji (written letters of the Japanese language with Chinese origins) to the mysteries of Easter Island.

Please click on the following PDFs to view sample materials from REWARDS Plus Social Studies:

REWARDS Plus Social Studies comprises 21 teacher-directed, scripted lessons. The first six lessons are review lessons, and each will take 1 class period to implement. The next 15 are application lessons that take 2 to 3 class periods to implement. In addition, the program includes blackline masters for reproducibles, motivating vocabulary activities, and an optional incentive/grading system.

REWARDS Plus Social Studies tracks students' fluency progress using a Fluency Graph where students (or teachers/paraeducators) record their timing as they engage in repeated readings in each of the Application Lessons. A student's first and last timings are tracked - not only does this enable students to see their success, it helps teachers gauge progress!

REWARDS Plus Social Studies is designed for students who:

Similar to REWARDS Plus Social Studies, REWARDS Plus Science reinforces skills in decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and test taking to help students experience more success with reading in science.

Each lesson features interesting and informative articles from the physical, earth, and life sciences. A spectrum of topics are covered, including atoms, ecosystems, photosynthesis, and the cardiovascular system.

Please click on the following PDFs to view sample materials from REWARDS Plus: Reading Strategies Applied to Science Passages:

REWARDS Plus Science comprises 21 teacher-directed, scripted lessons. The first six lessons are review lessons, and each will take 1 class period to implement. The next 15 are application lessons that take 2 to 4 class periods to implement. In addition, the program includes reproducibles, graphic organizers (one for each lesson), motivating vocabulary activities, and an optional incentive/grading system.

REWARDS Plus Science includes procedures, materials, and rubrics that can be used to assess students' oral reading fluency, multiparagraph writing skills, and science vocabulary knowledge before and after participating in the REWARDS Plus program.

Also, in each of the Application Lessons, students' fluency progress is tracked using a Fluency Graph where students (or teachers/paraeducators) record their timing as they engage in repeated readings. A student's first and last timings are tracked - not only does this enable students to see their success, it helps teachers gauge progress!

REWARDS Plus Science is designed for students who:

Direct Instruction and focused practice that helps build essential writing skills for grade 5-12. Easy to follow, systematic, explicit instructional model done in 20-25 minute lessons teaching critical sentence writing skills.