SuccessMaker Reading Overview

SuccessMaker Reading is designed to meet the needs of students in demographic grades K–12 by providing instruction, practice, and assessment with a focus on the most essential reading skills for course-level grades K–8. SuccessMaker Reading offers:

  • Content that integrates social studies, science, and interdisciplinary themes.

  • Initial Placement (IPClosed Initial Placement; the first level of entry into a course.), which uses diagnostic sessions to determine the student’s starting level.

  • Adaptive Motion that focuses instruction time on content students have yet to master with:

  • Explicit Instruction and Guided Practice that provides students with scaffolded instruction based on instructional reading level until they’re ready to advance to the next level of complexity.

  • On-demand intervention including scaffolded feedback and prerequisite instruction triggered when a learner encounters challenges.

  • Additional Scaffolding activities to support the student in content areas identified as not yet mastered.

  • Effective, research-based instructional strategies that increase the amount and quality of learning time and accelerate achievement.

  • Independent reading practice that allows the student to hone the skills they have been building without instructional support, such as the “cognitive coach” and “read to me” audio.

  • Increased student exposure to nonfiction texts with a range of digital reading selections.

  • A completely customized learning path built around the program's ongoing, real-time analysis of each learner's actual performance.

  • Print Partners, which provides additional targeted practice to keep the student learning after the school day ends.

  • Powerful data management tools to monitor student progress, customize lessons, and forecast achievement.

  • Age-appropriate themes, characters, cognitive coaches, and tools based on the student’s demographic grade level.

  • SuccessMaker Reading includes an enrollment option for all courses to provide students with a translation tool.

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