DMPS Secondary Literacy
Revised June 1, 2022
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Support for Success in School and Beyond

​Course Descriptions:
Our menu of reading course options (Power Reading, Focused Reading, Power Literacy, and some sections of Power English) are courses where students with demonstrated needs in core skills receive targeted instruction from teachers trained and equipped to facilitate a growth-driven classroom. Courses focus on a combination of comprehension, writing, fluency, and vocabulary skills. They are taught in conjunction with the students' regular language arts classes and are designed to give students a solid foundation for success in all courses for the remainder of secondary school and the next stage of life.

Curriculum Guides:
Reading support classes follow a flexible structure that allows the teacher to tailor assignments, activities, and even units to the needs of the particular students in a specific section of the course, while keeping a watchful eye on opportunities to link student learning to what is happening in both their other courses and the world around them. As courses engaged in Standards-Referenced Grading, these classes have a set of curriculum scales used for reporting student achievement in the class, and those are located at the links below. These reading courses support Language Arts courses; they do not supplant them.
Reading Support Curriculum Guide

Additional Resources

There is no formally adopted textbook for these courses. All classes, however, have access to the Achieve3000 differentiated literacy intervention toolkit.

The Achieve3000 Literacy Intervention software used by these courses has its own dedicated page for resources.

If you are a middle school reading teacher with a terrific resource for reading teachers that you would like to share, click the "Submit Resources" button!
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General Planning Information

Reading Support Guide / Word Format (Version: Gamma)
Lexile/Career Connections
SRI Information

Specific Planning Resources

Handout on Teaching Procedures


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