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 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 includes:

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

Teacher Guide
Step-by-step suggestions support experienced those 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.

Minilesson Transparencies
Detailed full-color transparencies provide instant minilessons for teaching each 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

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

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 version of all minilesson transparencies

Durable Canvas Briefcase for convenient portability