About The Program
Connect to Comprehension is currently being
used in Florida
State
University’s practicum for struggling
readers/ESOL students (RED4941) as the primary intervention program
for students in grades 2-6.
Previously, the program was used by Marion County Children’s
Alliance
in an SES afterschool program. The program has recently been approved for the Bay County Florida
School District MTSS and is now being used as a Tier 3
reading intervention. Connect to Comprehension is now being
implemented in numerous classrooms throughout the US and several
foreign countries.
The Author
Lynn Givens has been a teacher of struggling
readers for over 30 years.
She has also served as a teacher trainer, curriculum
developer, instructor in higher education, and professional
development expert. She served as the Director of Intervention at
the Florida
Center for Reading Research in Tallahassee, where she worked with Dr. Joseph Torgesen to
develop and implement intervention programs for struggling readers
throughout Florida. In addition to
Connect to Comprehension, she is also the author of Phonics Games
for Fluency
and Developing Essential Writing Skills, a textbook/workbook for
college-level language arts students for the past two years. She has
served as an online course developer and facilitator for the Orton
Gillingham Online Academy (ortonfillinhgamonlinetutor.com).
Lynn was elected to the Board of the Florida Dyslexia
Association in 2007.
