Essential Literacy Skills

PHONICS/PHONEMIC AWARENESS/WORD STUDY

StartUp, BuildUp, and SpiralUp Phonics Skill Bag Kits are a proven solution to teaching phonics in an intervention or small-group classroom setting. Ready-to-use Skill Bags include all you need to teach ONE skill in each bag.

• Read more about Phonics Skill Bags for Intervention or Classroom Use, Grades K-6.

Extend the learning with 128 Skill Bags that build word study skills to improve spelling, reading, and vocabulary. Each of 4 Word Study Kits includes a full year of sequential or targeted instruction.

• Read more about Word Study & Vocabulary Skill Bags, Grades 3-8+.

COMPREHENSION

Anchor your K-6 comprehension strategy instruction with consistent spiraling whole to small-group resources. Anchor posters, leveled texts, and strategy assessments let you assess needs, model strategies, and guide practice.

• Read more about Anchor Comprehension Workshop, Grades K-6.

Jump-start early readers with strategic emergent resources. Theme-based kits include whole-group, small-group, assisted reading, and independent practice resources.

• Read more about Comprehension Skill Bags, Grade PreK.

Grab-and-go thematic resources help increase literacy through assessment, modeling, practice, and progress monitoring. Each Skill Bag includes a multi-leveled Reader's Theater shared reading script.

• Read more about Comprehension Skill Bags with Reader's Theater, Grades K-3.

Help struggling readers meet annual progress goals. Ready-to-use Skill Bags, organized by grade and reading level, make it easy to indentify needs, reinforce skills, and monitor progress.

• Read more about Comprehension Skill Bags for Intervention, Grades K-8.

Assess students' needs easily and quickly to plan instruction. Pretests, posttests, and ongoing assessments are available in print and CD-ROM formats, and as subscription–based online e-assessments.

• Read more about Comprehension Strategy Assessments, Grades K-6.

FLUENCY

Support struggling, on-grade, and above-grade readers. Three grade-level fluency kits include 15 explicit mini-lessons for instruction and intervention, plus resources for practice.

• Read more about 1-2-3 Grade-Level Fluency Content Theme Sets, Grades 1-3.

Improve reading rates with instant fluency centers. Two kits (Levels F–M and N–U) provide fun fiction and nonfiction fluency cards for oral reading practice. Proven effective!

• Read more about Fluency Independent Practice Kits, Grades 1-5.

Scripts featuring multi-leveled roles build fluency through collaborative reading and enable each student to succeed. Choose from award-winning, proven-effective Reader's Theater series—for PreK through middle school.

• Read more about Multi-Leveled Reader's Theater, Grades PreK-8.

Help beginning readers learn high-use words and basic print concepts. Lap books and matching small books give pre-readers a boost.

• Read more about High-Frequency Word Vocabulary Kit, Grades K-1.

Introduce academic vocabulary, reading strategies, and content-area concepts with posters, vocabulary cards, and interactive whiteboard resources organized by theme!

• Read more about Vocabulary, Content, and Language, Grades 3-8+.

Extend the learning with 128 Skill Bags that build word study skills to improve spelling, reading, and vocabulary. Each of 4 Word Study Kits includes a full year of sequential or targeted instruction.

• Read more about Word Study & Vocabulary Skill Bags, Grades 3-8+.