These programs tie into all five essential components of Reading First. They enhance what is being taught in the classroom and we have seen marked improvements in student performance. I would highly recommend these programs to other teachers!
Teacher Tested
Programs for Kindergarten
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Readiness Skills Provides students in grades PK through one with the basic readiness skills required for them to excel as early learners. |
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Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness teaches students at a K-2 grade level 38 different phoneme sounds, how to isolate these sounds in words, phoneme addition, deletion and substitution. |
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Super Phonics This is a complete interactive reading skills program that provides systematic and explicit phonics instruction to students at a K-2 grade level. Students progress from learning the alphabet to reading complete sentences. |
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Sight Words Teaches the 220 Dolch Sight Words and more than 100 other high frequency words to students a K to 2 grade level. The word lists in this program constitute over 50% of most reading material. |
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Leveled Reader Primer These fully illustrated and patterned stories are designed to allow emergent readers to learn independently at their own level and pace. Each story provides opportunities for students to learn, practice, and apply phonetic rules and to develop word recognition and comprehension skills. More importantly these stories invite children to read for interest and pleasure. |
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Mastering Numeration Level 1 Provides students in grades K to 1 with a strong foundation in understanding basic number concepts. Some of the skills taught in this program include: number recognition, counting, addition and subtraction. |
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Measurement Grade 1 Provides students in grades K to 1 with a practical understanding of measurement and how it applies to everyday life. |
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Diagnostic Decoding Skills This test can be given to groups or individuals and provides a practical means of assessing word analysis and decoding strengths and weaknesses. |
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Diagnostic Phonics Test This test can be administered to groups or individuals and is designed to provide teachers with a practical means of assessing students' phonics abilities. |
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Graded Word Recognition Test This test provides an accurate and reliable measurement of reading and word recognition ability up to the end of grade 8. |

