elementary: Grades 2–5
ARC Accelerator® elementary is an intervention program designed to provide targeted instruction and practice for elementary students not yet reading on grade level.
ARC Accelerator's Approach
ARC's Elementary Accelerator keeps it simple: the right tools, the right moves, right when students need them. The goal of ARC Accelerator is to rapidly increase the complexity of text each student can read and understand on their own.
Teach all students high-utility skills/strategies for handling any text.
Screen students for phonics and vocabulary gaps, and provide simple tools for teachers, students, and families to support growth and track progress.
Provide explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction in the specific skills each reader needs.
Ensure essential reading practice builds fluency, expands vocabulary, and grows background knowledge.
ARC Accelerator is designed to provide targeted instruction and practice for elementary students who are not yet reading at grade level. Scripted, easy, and fast, it's perfect for your intervention, MTSS, or RTI space.
| Daily Lesson Structure | ||
|---|---|---|
| 5-10 minutes | Get Started | Teacher sets a focus task and students read. |
| High-Utility Skills/Strategy | Teacher introduces or reviews a transferable skill, strategy, or habit essential for reading success. | |
| 15-30 minutes | Differentiated Instruction | Teacher uses the IRLA and Toolkits to provide scripted instruction to groups based on like foundational skill and/or vocabulary needs. Students participate in targeted instructional groups and deliberate reading practice. |
| 5–10 minutes | Accountable Talk | Students discuss how the high-utility skill/strategy applies to their reading as oral rehearsal for the Exit Ticket. |
| Wrap Up | Each student logs their reading and completes an Exit Ticket, demonstrating their current command of the high-utility skill/strategy. | |
Materials
| Scope and Sequence of Lessons | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lessons | High-Utility Skill/Strategy All Students | Differentiated Instruction By IRLA Skill |
| 1 | Text Complexity Matters | |
| 2 | Volume of Practice | |
| 3 | Decoding | Phonics Screener |
| 4 | Determining the Meaning of New Words | Academic Vocabulary Screener |
| 5–10 | Word Attack Strategies | Determine Instructional Groups Using IRLA Baseline Levels |
| 11–15 | Fluency | Begin Targeted Instruction Using Toolkits |
| 16–21 | Context Clues | Accelerate Reading Growth*Each student/group engages in sufficient reading practice and receives Toolkit instruction to accelerate reading growth as quickly as possible:
Check in with each student regularly to monitor progress. Students working at:
Adjust intervention groups as students are ready for the next IRLA level. 90+ Scripted, Whole Group Lessons 235 Differentiated Skill Lessons |
| 22–24 | Shades of Meaning | |
| 25–26 | Introduce to Morphology | |
| 27–28 | Word Parts as Clues | |
| 29–35 | Affixes as Clues | |
| 36–44 | Roots as Clues | |
| 45–49 | Types of Figurative Language | |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 50 | Technical Vocabulary | |
| 51–60 | Science Expansion | |
| 61–70 | Social Studies Expansion | |
| Fiction | ||
| 71 | Story Elements | |
| 72–87 | Develop a Series Habit | |
| 88–89 | What is Genre? | |
| 90+ | Reading Across Genres | |
High-Utility Skill or Strategy Instructionfor All Students
Designed on the research behind the Science of Reading, Accelerator helps students quickly build the skills needed for grade-level reading. Engaging whole-group lessons combine scripted instruction and student-friendly resources to give all students access to essential, transferable skills such as context clues and morphology.
Differentiated Instructionby IRLA Skill
During each Accelerator lesson, students receive personalized instruction targeting their specific needs. Daily small-group or one-on-one lessons help close skill gaps quickly, while practice reinforces learning and builds toward grade-level proficiency.
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