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Student Success Reading Lab
"Where Readers Are Leaders"

 

History
The Student Success Lab was established at Washington Academy in April 2004. With the Philosophy and Goal: to reach every learner at Washington Academy, and ensure that reasonable efforts have been made to help them learn how to be literate, functioning adults with the lifelong reading skills by providing individualized strategies that will enhance their learning potential in Reading / Language Arts as well as in other core curriculum areas.

 

Literacy Support

Washington Academy Student Success Lab offers literacy support for students in grades 1 to 5 who have been identified as needing additional support with reading, writing, comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and word usage. The program is lead by experienced elementry school literacy educators with additional educators to give assistance. They operate daily with students, working one on one in a small classroom setting.

The Sudent Success program works with the childs' own classroom literacy program. There is regular communication between the Student Success staff, the classroom teachers and the parents to ensure that each student's individual needs are being met.

 

Resources
In helping the child to reach their academic goals, the Student Success Lab uses a variety of resources above and beyond standard classroom materials to help achieve lifelong skills necessary to be successful in their educational journey. Technology plays an important role in this process. The children are exposed to engaging, interactive and research based computer software programs which are not available in their standard classroom setting, that challenge their existing skills and lays the foundation for new tools and strategies that the child can use to succeed.

 

Additional Support
Since we are a Title I school, in addition to the daily literacy program, the SSL staff offers a Before/After school tutoring program to the total student body which supports students with their weak areas such as reading, writing, math, comprehension along with homework. Operating hours are 7 A.M. to 8 A.M. (Tu, W, Th) and 3 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. (Tu, W, Th); early out Wednesday's 1 P.M. to 3 P.M.