• Teacher’s Guides include 13 units organized by genre, with read-aloud, whole-group, and small-group material for each unit.
• Whole-group lessons model skills and strategies for close reading and finding text evidence.
• Small-group lessons expose students to multiple texts for cross-text analysis.
• Teacher's Guides contain a built-in "Step-Up" acceleration plan in small-group instruction.
• Answer keys are provided in the Teacher's Guide for ease and efficiency.

Progress-Monitoring Assessments and Interim Assessments provide placement and exit opportunities.

• Fresh reads assess student progress toward skill mastery.
• Question types are modeled after new assessments.
• Features such as tables, graphs, and images supplement the text.
• Students are given writing opportunities based on text passages.

Unit Assessments

• Two 30-minute sessions include select response items and one constructed response.

Progress-Monitoring Assessments

• • Progress Monitor 1 prior to Unit 1
  • Progress Monitor 2 & 3 every three or more units
  • Progress Monitor 4 at end of Unit 13