Reading Rascals
Reading Rascals believe that core skills needed for a successful productive life are learned and enlarged before the age of 6 in young scholars. Also, Reading Rascals recognizes the extraordinary expansion that occurs during the young scholar’s early years. Therefore, we focus on stimulating each young scholar’s innate craving for knowledge by introducing and reinforcing core learning competencies and promoting accelerated growth for kindergarten readiness.
The Mission
We are committed to providing a high-quality early learning pre-reading program. We will build the solid foundation for ALL Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten and beyond young scholars’ skills. We will help the young scholar become equipped and ready prior to entering kindergarten on the first day of school.
The Vision
Where we inspire, where we teach, where we grow.
GOAL:
To ensure that ALL students enter kindergarten equipped, prepared and ready to meet the core competencies on day one of school
To ultimately graduate prepared for college, careers and life
To increase student performance measures, postsecondary readiness and graduation rates and
To decrease student management incidences
OBJECTIVES:
Young Scholars will strengthen their cognitive skills.
Young Scholars will increase their pre-reading skills.
Young Scholars will strengthen their fine and gross motor skills.
Young Scholars will enhance their interpersonal/social skills.
Young Scholars will enhance intrapersonal skill; improve their independence and self-reliance.
What is the Purpose, Meaning and Intent of Reading Rascals?
To develop early learning and pre-reading skills in the areas of writing, alphabetical principles, sounds, comprehension skills, and (oral language) vocabulary skills
To build solidified phonemic awareness skills in pre-reading readiness
To develop avid young reading scholars
To help young scholars prepare and become equipped and ready in kindergarten readiness
To develop reading competencies beyond kindergarten
To intervene early and introduce pre-reading skills
To help close the achievement gaps
To build competent and independent thinker
To deliver young confident scholars into the school districts
To help make the transition into kindergarten process easier
To help the kindergarten teacher with placement on day one with the deliverables of advance and ready young scholars
To help the young scholar become acclimated and knowledgeable of the early learning environments
How does the program develop and build young scholars?
The Reading Rascals Program has three components to move students through the various early learning and pre-reading skills process.
They are as follows:
Component 1: I Want to READ
Component 2: I am Learning to READ
Component 3: I Can READ
The Reading Rascals program has lessons within the components. They track the young scholar’s:
progression and successions,
strengthens,
weaknesses,
identify learning styles,
build strategies in problem areas,
chart growth and learning curves, and
help close the achievement gaps to promote academic successes in pre-reading and beyond.
Reading Rascals Curriculum
Reading Rascals Program is a researched-based evidence proven curriculum and program. It is supported by the “National Early Literacy” Panel. The curriculum lessons are delivered based upon the Phonemic Awareness “5 Big Ideas” strategies and best practices and theories in early learning and pre-reading skills. The “5 Big Ideas” strategies are:
writing,
alphabetical principles,
sounds,
vocabulary, and
comprehension skills.
Let Success Begin Today!
Headquarters
5750 Division Street #100, Riverside, CA 92506
Phone Number
Call us at (951)684-3811 / (888)517-3522
Hours
Open Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm.
Saturday to Sunday (by appointment only)
