Read Write Inc. Fresh Start is a catch-up and intervention programme for anyone who finds the decoding processes of reading challenging. It offers a simple but powerful solution to accelerate reading progress in short 20 to 30-minute sessions.
Developed by Ruth Miskin, Fresh Start teaches students at their own unique challenge point, so they learn to read accurately and fluently. They develop good comprehension, spelling and punctuation skills through targeted activities
We teach the sounds first – in a specific order. We then teach your children to blend those sounds together in order to read words.
The students read words in the matched Modules. Each Module is carefully matched to the sounds and words they can already read - setting them up for success.
After the modules, they will be able to independently read ‘real’ books
What Fresh Start does is simple - we teach sounds students practise reading and spelling words containing these sounds then we give students decodable modules containing sounds and words they can read.
They read each module multiple times at school and students receive an anthology with additional reading material to support their progress.
On each reading, student’s fluency increases and the more they can focus on what the story is about.
Students also learn to spell the words they have been reading and develop their ideas into sentences so that they can write about the modules they read.
Our aim is for students to finish the Fresh Start programme quickly so they can start reading these books for themselves.