Program Components: Reading Advantage
Each Reading Advantage kit (Levels A-F) provides all the reading materials and teaching support required to help teachers address the needs of their most struggling readers:
Theme Magazines:
colorful, high-interest theme magazines provide a variety of selections written at students' instructional level to help struggling readers practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and word-building skills.
Teacher's Edition:
point-of-use instruction wrapped around full-color theme magazine facsimiles plus detailed lesson plans that follow the before, during, and after reading process, and comprehension, vocabulary, and phonics/word study instruction.
Student Journal:
provides a place for students to practice essential comprehension and vocabulary strategies and record their responses to each selection.
Word Study:
a rich teacher resource for in-depth word study, phonics, and vocabulary-building activities.
Assessment book:
provides pretests, posttests, end-of-magazine tests, and a variety of checklists and observation notes to help teachers track student progress throughout the year.
Paperback trade books:
encourage independent reading and allow students to practice the skills and strategies covered in the theme magazines on other selections.
Reading Advantage eZines:
offer additional theme-based magazine articles with strategy-based activities to build students' reading, vocabulary, and test-taking skills.
Writing Advantage:
is an essential teacher resource that provides students with writing tools and experiences to be successful in all subjects.
Teacher Resources CD-ROM
(with all blackline masters from the program)
