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Reading Mastery Signature Edition

Grades PreK–5

For over 35 years, Reading Mastery has helped thousands of schools achieve and sustain measurable gains in literacy. Reading Mastery Signature Edition is an efficacy-proven core comprehensive program. It gives teachers the flexibility to use reading, language arts, and literature together or separately, each strand can be targeted for use as an intervention program.

 

Program Details

Dynamic Digital Resources:

  • Interactive Whiteboard Activities
  • SRA 2Inform Online Progress Monitoring
  • eInquiry
  • Research Projects
  • Online Professional Development
  • Teacher eBooks

Additional materials to help boost your Reading Mastery program:

  • *Teaching Tutor CD-ROMs
  • *SRA Read-Aloud Libraries
  • *Decodable Stories

* These materials were developed by SRA for use with Reading Mastery Signature Edition and are not considered a component of the core program

Reading Mastery Signature Edition uses the highly explicit, systematic approach of Direct Instruction to accelerate reading and help students achieve a high rate of success. Three strands address Reading, Language Arts, and Literature through a common instructional design that helps students learn more efficiently. With the addition of technology-based resources for both additional practice and professional development, Reading Mastery Signature Edition helps teachers optimize each minute spent in the classroom.

The Reading Strand:

  • Addresses all five essential components of reading as identified by Reading First—phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
  • Provides spelling instruction to help students make the connection between decoding and spelling patterns.
  • Develops decoding, word recognition, and comprehension skills that transfer to other subject areas.

The Language Arts Strand:

  • Teaches the oral language skills necessary to understand what is said, written, and read in the classroom.
  • Helps students communicate ideas and information effectively.
  • Develops the ability to use writing strategies and processes successfully.

The Literature Strand:

  • Supports the reading strand by offering a wide variety of literary forms and text structures.
  • Provides multiple opportunities for students to practice vocabulary and comprehension strategies and write for authentic purposes.
  • Gives ample opportunity for students to read at their independent level.

Each strand can be used as a supplement to the core curriculum for targeted intervention, or combined for use as a comprehensive, stand-alone reading and language arts program that meets rigorous state standards.

For Teachers

  • Teacher Guides - includes the presentation book, answer key and spelling book 
  • Presentation Books - features lesson plans for reading and spelling
  • Assessment and Fluency Handbook - to track student skill mastery

For Students

  • Storybooks - more than 95% decodable
  • Workbooks - includes comprehension activities
  • Test Books - to measure student progress

The Literature Strand includes theme-related trade books; a Read-Aloud Library of 30 books featuring quality narrative and expository text; and a Read-Aloud Teacher’s Edition that presents explicit lessons on vocabulary-building and comprehension exercises.

Supplemental Activities

Family Letters

Language Arts

Sample Lessons

Placement Tests

Scope and Sequence

Reading

Placement Tests

Scope and Sequence

Spelling

Sample Lessons

Research Base

  • Direct Instruction Mathematics Programs: An Overview and Research Summary
    This paper provides an overview and research summary of Direct Instruction (DI) mathematics programs, including Connecting Math Concepts . A comparison of the constructivist approach to the direct or explicit approach to math instruction was conducted. Overviews and ways in which DI math programs meet the 6 principles for improving math instruction as provided by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM; 2000b) are noted. Finally, a research review and analysis of DI math programs published since 1990 (yielding 12 studies) was completed.

  • The Research Base for Direct Instruction Mathematics Programs
    The following is a description of the research base for Direct Instruction mathematics programs, specifically DISTAR Arithmetic I and II, Corrective Mathematics, and Connecting Math Concepts. Searched of reference lists were used to identify other possible research articles. Also, hand searches were done in the following peer-reviewed journals: Effective School Practices, Journal of Direct Instruction, and Educations and Treatment of Children.

Randomized Controlled Studies

Non-Randomized Controlled Studies

Evidence of Success

  • Special Education and Direct Instruction: An Effective Combination
    Research shows strong evidence of success when Direct Instruction programs are used with students with special needs. In fact, Direct Instruction is one of only seven interventions proven effective (Forness, Kavale, Blum & Lloyd, 1997). With its research-supported design and systematic delivery, Direct Instruction is often referred to as a program for special education or at-risk students.
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