Raising the bar in reading.

Abstract

This article aims to present strategies and discussion about how teachers can adapt the curriculum in order to provide authentic needs-based programmes. Identifying students' strengths and needs gave us clear directions as to what we needed to teach. In this article, the research team discuss how they successfully raised the reading achievement of target students by attending to classroom practices such as guided reading and taking running records, as well as giving specific focus to targeted assessment, goal setting and inclusive support programming.