Reading Horizons

In this class you will have a 2 hour lab. The lab will be on Mondays in Isbister Room 101. This reading lab is designed to help you improve your decoding skills, help you become a better and faster reader, improve your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary, and improve your spelling. The computer program we'll be using is called Reading Horizons. If you want to know more about this program you can visit the website at www.readinghorizons.com.

To begin with you will have to take a placement test. The placement test will tell you if you need to take all the lessons, some or just a few. After the placement you will listen to a demo of the program. You will need to complete each lesson before you can go to the next. However, at the beginning of each lesson you can take a short assessment and if you pass it, you will only have to complete a very short version of the lesson. You should always try to challenge the lesson so that you can finish as fast as possible.

Each chapter ends with a test. You will take the test and if you pass you can go to the next chapter. I will keep track of your marks and progress in general. Your mark for this lab will be a combination of progress and test marks. You are expected to work on Reading Horizons at least three more hours in addition to the 2 hours you spend in the lab.