Efficient instruction with mentor text sets focuses on specific learning goals and provides students with access to complex text daily.

• In Grades K-1, complex text is encountered through big books and lap books.
• In Grades 2-5, students receive a consumable mentor text for each unit topic, which is theirs to take home at the end of each 3-week unit.
• Teachers are fully prepared with a comprehensive text complexity analysis that highlights the most challenging aspects of each text.

Diverse texts reinforce whole-group topics, skills, and strategies. 

Responsive teaching tools facilitate productive student-centered conferences. 

Student- and teacher-selected titles, incuding trade books, engage each learner.

Pinpoint readers' strengths and address learning gaps with digital, downloadable, and observational assessments that help inform instructional decisions.