Supplementary Activities
The authors of the PCI Reading Program have created the following supplements to provide additional repetition and practice with the words in the program. These supplements can be used as literacy centers in a classroom. The reproducible books can also be sent home for additional reading practice.
Comprehension Activities
Extend and assess comprehension on the program's books with these fully scripted lessons and reproducible activities. For each book in the core program, these binders provide a reading comprehension lesson with activities for both pre- and post-reading. Comprehension lessons focus on standards-based literacy skills and strategies. Offers post-reading comprehension questions for each page in the books that reinforce these skills and strategies. Four reproducible activities are provided for each book along with a reproducible assessment. Progress monitoring checklists are included.
Level Two Comprehension Activities covers all 14 Level Two books. In addition to reviewing the skills taught in Level one, new skills such as summarization, cause and effect, and compare/contrast are introduced.
NOTE: This item is NOT INCLUDED in the PCI Reading Program Level Two: Complete Print Kit
The PCI Reading Program is a research-based curriculum created specifically to teach students with developmental disabilities, autism, and significant learning disabilities how to read. Levels One and Two teach 280 sight words and "real-world" nouns and verbs through a comprehensive system of repetition, "hands-on" practice, controlled-vocabulary reading, and high-interest activities. Nonreaders become successful readers word by word, reading 42 engaging, full-color books along the way. Level Three serves as a bridge between the whole-word visual discrimination approach in Levels One and Two and the decoding required of independent readers. To promote student success, instruction is carefully scaffolded to introduce students to the process of decoding by unveiling sounds that are embedded within the sight words they already know how to read. Comprehension skills, including setting, main idea, and cause and effect, were selected based on an analysis of the types of questions on alternative state assessments.