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Educational Programs That Work - 1995

TV Reading S.T.A.R. (Scripts, Taping, Acting, Reading)

TV Reading S.T.A.R. (Scripts, Taping, Acting, Reading). Auditory and visual focus and practice improves student reading. Approved by JDRP for grades 4-8.

Description TV Reading S.T.A.R. (Scripts, Taping, Acting, Reading) uses popular commercial TV to teach academic and underlying psycholinguistic skills. Network videotapes with diverse production elements are used in the classroom or communication studio to provide concrete visualization and pronunciation of sophisticated vocabulary.

Lesson plans are prepared from the actual scripts used by TV producers and include skills related to social studies, oral language, reading, writing, and skills that affect learning rate such as memory, grammar, and visual and auditory integration. Teachers use rapidly paced oral response drills designed to increase accuracy in articulating, listening, handling complicated syntax, and master vocabulary meaning. Program techniques enable teachers to continuously assess lesson mastery, to correct responses, and to monitor student ability to transfer skills taught in the auditory-vocal channel to the visual-motor channel. Students move through increasingly difficult levels of reading material as they practice the previously taught strategies on supplemental material.

Teachers and students operate video cameras, VCRs, and TVs for use in learning, processing, and expressive activities. Students become camera persons, directors, technicians, and actors as they confirm their ability to read at the end of each session by videotaping and playing back their dramatizations. Students produce their own documentary on a topic related to the script. Significant student reading gains were duplicated by replicators representing a gamut of populations from grades 4-10 using standardized reading achievement tests. Costs include equipment, materials ($82 for year's lesson plans with matching script and tape), and training.

Contact
Jacqueline Van Cott, TV Reading S.T.A.R., S.T.A.R. Studio, 196 Laurel Ridge, South Salem, NY 10590-2409. (914) 533-6852.

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Titles III and IV-C.
JDRP No. 82-16 (4/29/82)


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