Re: SRA pricing (was Reading Mastery)

[Guest guest]

<< I spoke with our local representative. SRA charges individuals more than

schools,almost double. >>

I purchased the Language for Learning program at the catalog price without

going through a local rep or my school district. I got the 800 number from

the SRA website (www.sra4kids.com, I think) and called them. You can't order

online but you can do it over the phone. It came in about a week.

[Guest guest]

At 12:29 PM 12/29/01, suebrinet@... wrote:

><< I spoke with our local representative. SRA charges individuals more than

>schools,almost double. >>

>

>I purchased the Language for Learning program at the catalog price without

>going through a local rep or my school district. I got the 800 number from

>the SRA website (www.sra4kids.com, I think) and called them. You can't order

>online but you can do it over the phone. It came in about a week.

How much is this please?

Thank you,

Jennie

[Guest guest]

Hi, all;

I have to agree that what product you use depends on where your child is

at, and what the problems are. That said, I have used the SRA Corrective

Reading Comprehension for my son who is in his 5th year of ABA, (now in 4th

grade) where we started at ~age 5 with basically no language. Dan can decode

phonetically and read fairly fluently at grade level, but did not do so well

in comprehension. This SRA program teaches specific reading skills such as:

vocabulary, inferences, similes, analogies, deductions, contradictions and

rule applications. Dan needed all of these!

SRA Corrective Reading comprehension has levels A, B1, B2, and C. We are in

level B1 now, and noticed after getting 1/2 way through A that Dan was

generalizing the inferences and analogies that he had learned to life

situations. This was something he had never done before (for example, he was

looking and calling for me when I was away on an airplane flight. My mother

told him I was gone. He said, " no " , took her to the back door, pointed to my

car and said " Mommy's car is here, so Mommy didn't go " (I had gotten a ride

to the airport)).

SRA decoding at the earliest level is difficult, in my humble opinion, to

teach a child who already has some reading skills, as it uses some different

type/symbols for some sounds, and fade those out, and the student into

reading " regular " books later. The research shows that these programs work.

The DISTAR reading comprehension (not the corrective) has levels A through

E: level A is written with the " different " symbols. Level B, however, seems

a little beyond where Dan is right now. We are putting that on hold until we

get a little further in the Corrective Reading Comprehension series.

They ARE pricey: I found copies to use from my school district but had to

do some digging to locate them. Check with your school district to see if

they have these books somewhere in a closet - my district had them on a back

shelf in the storeroom and had not put them in the computer system, so when

I asked the lady at the desk she said they didn't have the books - but I was

able to search the shelves and saw them!! Also there is a chance to find

them at various second hand stores or online services, or even advertise in

your local paper.

Take care,

Asbury, BCABA <><

<< I spoke with our local representative. SRA charges individuals more than

schools,almost double. >>

I purchased the Language for Learning program at the catalog price without

going through a local rep or my school district. I got the 800 number from

the SRA website (www.sra4kids.com, I think) and called them. You can't

order

online but you can do it over the phone. It came in about a week.