Welcome to McInnis Assured Readiness for Learning!
Assured Readiness for Learning (ARL) stresses phonemic
awareness and blending as advocated by The National Reading
Panel, The National Research Council, The American
Federation for Teachers publication "Teaching Reading IS
Rocket Science," Marilyn Jager Adams’ book “Beginning to
Read,” and others. ARL emphasizes alphabetic coding. ARL is
not a phonic program, however it does teach the
sound/symbol relationship, phonemic awareness, and
blending. ARL may be used with all major reading approaches
and/or philosophies. ARL supplements whichever approach you
choose.
* Language stimulation, language extension, and language
usage are focal points for instruction.
* Alphabetic Coding is the focus of ARL: Phonemic
Awareness, Phonogram, Phoneme, Rime, Sound/Symbol, Decoding
Keys, 3 Systems of Blending.
* The Language of Instruction: A systematic strategy for
developing the prerequisite language for math and science
as well as organizational skills needed for all learning.
* Multisensory, multidisciplinary, and hands-on instruction
which is appropriate for the developing children. No
workbooks in Kindergarten.
* Metacognitive strategies for learning how to learn. Ideas
to enrich learning. NOT a canned program!
* Techniques for developing listening skills. Learning how
to learn.
* One-minute activities for grades 2-8 to automatize the
blending & S/S.
Does it work?
ARL was designed to apply research findings to the
classroom. Therefore, if a technique, method, or principle
was not first established by research studies, it was not
selected to be part of the program.
When you combine these research based findings to a school,
exciting things happen for children. Marathon, NY and Van
Buren, ME have reduced Chapter I and Labeled population by
more than 50%. Amityville, NY, Riverhead, NY, Batavia, NY,
Atwater, CA, Payson, AZ, Colona, IL, Winthrop, ME and
hundreds of schools throughout the US and Canada are using
ARL.
McInnis ARL
2452
Route 364, Penn Yan, New York, 14527, US
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