SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT MTSS

PROGRAMS ALIGNED TO MTSS TO SUPPORT YOUR SCHOOL AND STUDENT LITERACY INTERVENTION NEEDS

EVALUATING, SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS & MATERIALS THAT SUPPORT STUDENTS IN CLOSING GAPS!
Our materials support the Big Five of Reading:
  • Comprehension
  • Phonics
  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Fluency
  • Vocabulary
​For assistance selecting "just right" materials for your school or district, please contact us.

COMPREHENSION

Comprehension is the complex cognitive process readers use to understand what they have read. Vocabulary development and instruction play a critical role in comprehension. The use of Text-Evidence is of utmost importance.

ANCHOR COMPREHENSION WORKSHOP

Anchor Comprehension Workshop is a resource for COMPREHENSION following the gradual release model. Using the print or digital poster, instructors present a strategy using 4 different short pieces of text at varying levels.  The connected BookRoom is organized by comprehension strategy and allows students to practice and apply the strategy at their instructional reading level in a guided reading setting.
​
RESEARCH TO SUPPORT MTSS:
> ACW: Scientifically-Based Research Study - 2013

CURRENTLY USED IN THE FOLLOWING NC DISTRICTS:
•Wake County  •Buncombe County

PHONICS & PHONEMIC AWARENESS

Phonics is the relationship between the letters (or letter combinations) in written language and the individual sounds in spoken language. Phonics instruction teaches students how to use these relationships to read and spell words.  Phonemes, the smallest units making up spoken language, combine to form syllables and words. Phonemic awareness refers to the student’s ability to focus on and manipulate these phonemes in spoken syllables and words.

PHONICS SKILL BAGS

Teach  PHONEMIC AWARENESS  and PHONICS with targeted resources.  
  • StartUp Phonics develops PHONEMIC AWARENESS and letter knowledge.
  • BuildUp Phonics focuses on vowels, spelling and letter combinations.
  • SpiralUp Phonics improves multisyllabic word-solving strategies.
​Each skill bag includes everything needed to teach a targeted skill in a classroom or intervention session.

RESEARCH TO SUPPORT MTSS:
> Targeted Instruction for Struggling Readers: It Takes a Team - 2012

FLUENCY

Fluent readers are able to read orally with appropriate speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Fluency is the ability to read as well as we speak and to make sense of the text without having to stop and decode each word.

VOCABULARY

Vocabulary development is closely connected to comprehension. The larger the reader’s vocabulary (either oral or print), the easier it is to make sense of the text.  Students should be actively engaged in instruction that includes learning words before reading, repetition and multiple exposures, learning in rich contexts, incidental learning, and use of computer technology.

READERS THEATER

Enhance content units with multi-leveled scripts that expand student' knowledge and VOCABULARY.
​
RESEARCH TO SUPPORT MTSS:
> Reader's Theater: Scientifically-Based Research Study - 2008
> Targeted Instruction for Struggling Readers: It Takes a Team - 2012
> Motivating Struggling Adolescent Readers to Read - 2014

PLUS... RESOURCES FOR WRITING!

WRITER'S WORKSHOP

Build writing skills across the key text types: Informational, Narrative and Opinion/Argument. Supports English learners, struggling writers, and advanced writers,. 

WRITER'S UNIVERSE

Award-winning online writing software, available in English and Spanish, guides students through each step of the writing process, providing the tools they need to become proficient, competent writers.