Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program (Gr. 6-8)
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- Comprehension
- General reading ability
- Critical thinking
- Increase positive child behavior
- Emotional awareness
Program Length
The program is divided into 3 types of ladder sets/prompts: short stories and media, poetry and song lyrics, and interviews/biographies/speeches
Program Description
The Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program uses a models approach to scaffold student learning and promote inquiry-based discussions of texts. This series of Jacob's Ladder focuses specifically on supporting advanced students' social-emotional needs through the discussion of reading selections in the following genres: short stories and media, poetry, and biographies. Each set of student workbooks includes 5 student booklets, divided by grade level and area of emphasis. Corresponding to the activities in Affective Jacob's ladder, Grades 6-8, students read high interest passages, then complete skill ladders connected to the picture book, short story, and media readings and activities to move them from lower to higher level skills of self-awareness, metacognition, and goal setting. The ladders include multiple skills necessary for success and integrate reading comprehension and analysis skills with affective and social-emotional needs, as students are asked to apply themes, character or real-life experiences, and lessons from texts to their own lives.
Visit Program WebsiteCost
$36.00 for a paperback copy. Optional student workbooks are also available for purchase.
More Pricing DetailsDemographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Core
- Intervention
Grade
- Middle School
Intended Group Size
- Small group
- Classroom
ELL/DLL
- Unspecified
Multisensory Applications
- Unspecified
Computer-Based Delivery
- None
Scripted
- Instructor Scripted
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Skill Specific
Placement Tests
- No
Accelerated Learning
- No
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- Yes
Error Correction Built In
- Unspecified
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- No
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
No research found.
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Insufficient evidence