Academic Skills

Pathways to Success ensures that students have the reading, writing, problem solving, and information processing skills needed through the use of four interventions. First, sixth-grade students who are reading at levels significantly below grade level will be taught The Word Identification Strategy (Lenz, Schumaker, Deshler, & Beals, 1996) in intensive classes with a 4-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio. Second, students will be taught other research-validated reading strategies in each students' sixth-grade reading class. Third, students will be taught research-validated writing strategies in their seventh-grade English classes. Finally, throughout their middle and senior high school grades, students will be taught essential information-processing strategies (such as test-taking, time management, and memory strategies) by tutors using a strategic tutoring intervention (Hock, 1998).