A.B. McDonald's Title 1 Reading program is dedicated to promoting student reading success in and out of the classroom. 
We strive to get books into the hands of our students and challenge our students to read through fun and engaging activities.
Our Title 1 program is designed to support students who benefit from small group or individualized reading instruction that
aligns with classroom learning.  The Title 1 team work alongside classroom teachers to plan reading instruction,
administer assessments and monitor reading progress.  

Our mission is to foster a love of reading, improve literacy skills, and help children become lifelong readers
​through targeted reading instruction with measurable results. 
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Heggerty is a program that builds phonemic awareness and phonological skills. ​​Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of words, including syllables, onset–rime, and phonemes. Both are key skills in getting kids ready to read.  
​​WonderWorks is designed to drive student achievement by connecting focused strategies for intervention with the content of the Wonders core program. Grounded in research, the two programs work together to support students who may benefit from intervention.
Phonics for Reading is a systematic, explicit instructional phonics based reading program. "Systematic and explicit phonics instruction makes a bigger contribution to children’s growth in reading than instruction that provides non-systematic or no phonics instruction. The hallmark of programs of systematic phonics instruction is the direct teaching of a set of letter-sound relationships in a clearly defined sequence." National Institute for Literacy