Reading Express:
Targeted Intervention
and Instruction

Grades 3–8

A complete resource kit for helping teachers incorporate reading standards quickly and easily into daily lessons

Each grade level contains approximately 60 lessons offering comprehensive coverage of your state standards. All the necessary materials are organized to save you time—teach a focused minilesson in as little as 10 to 20 minutes.

Whole Class Instruction

Each lesson is self-contained, allowing you the flexibility to supplement your instruction in the sequence that best fits your curriculum.

Supplement your textbook
Support your classroom literature
Prepare your students for state tests

Intervention

Diagnostic tools, a systematic lesson structure, and targeted instruction support students who struggle to master standards-based skills in a traditional classroom setting.

Small group or one-to-one intervention groupings
Pull-out programs, push-in programs, before- or after-school academic programs, and summer school

Reading Express Supports State Standards

Reading Express has been customized to specific state standards.

Reading Express has been customized to specific state standards in:
Arizona • California • Florida • Georgia • Illinois • Massachusetts • Michigan • New Jersey • New York • North Carolina • Ohio • Pennsylvania • Texas • Virginia

Don’t See Your State—Don’t Worry

For states where a customized edition has not been developed, the national standards edition focuses on the skills most commonly found across all state standards and addressed in most basal textbooks.

Each grade-level kit contains the following:

Minilesson Transparencies
Detailed full-color transparencies provide instant minilessons for teaching each standard.
Teacher Guide
Step-by-step suggestions support experienced teachers and teachers new to the field in delivering the lesson, differentiating instruction, reflecting on and assessing each lesson, and transferring the skill through classroom applications.
Student Practice
Student activities for each lesson in both reproducible and consumable formats
- scaffolded activities to practice the standard
- graphic organizers and writing activities to reinforce and support learning
- strategies, tips, and academic language explained for each standard
Assessment
- Assessment Resource
  - Comprehensive pretest diagnoses individual skill weaknesses
  - Unit tests over several skill lessons
  - Comprehensive posttest assesses mastery of skills
- ExamView® Software
  - Create custom tests
  - Diagnostic tests and posttests can be administered in paper and pencil or electronic formats
  - Performance reports by student, class, objective, lesson, and state standard
ELL Resource

Targeted resource for English Language Learners for each grade level. Over 200 pages of skill-specific lessons and reproducibles

frontload vocabulary instruction
provide direct instruction
offer targeted practice
build background knowledge necessary for success

Teacher ToolKit CD
- Suggested pacing schedules for using Reading Express
  —to supplement the basal textbook
  —as intervention with differentiated groupings
  —in a pull-out program
  —in a before- or after-school program
- English Language Learner Best Practices audio clips
- pdf versions of all minilesson transparencies
Durable Canvas Briefcase