A Guided Reading Experience.

This new series helps young readers acquire and enhance 42 literal, inferential, critical and visual reading skills through a multiple-step guided reading approach. Students progress through text introductions and predictions, vocabulary development, focused reading, skill and open-ended questions, peer discussion groups, and culminating critical thinking activities as they travel through each grade-specific environment. Narrative, informational, persuasive/ argumentative, and everyday/work texts are grade-appropriate. Includes pretests and instruction, practice, and application stages that ensure that students are properly challenged. A complete management system and extensive use of voice and illustrations enhance this robust package.

Reading Explorers incorporates a multi-level approach to developing reading comprehension skills.

1. Instruction - In the Instruction phase, the program automatically:

• Explains questions and how to find answers.
  
• Incorporates concept maps during or after stories for
  visual aids and skill reinforcement.
  
• Presents key vocabulary terms and definitions.
  
• Gives detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answer choices.
• Refers students to highlighted text for answer help.

2. Practice - Upon the students’ request, in the Practice phase, the program:

• Presents open-ended prediction questions before each passage and reviews after each passage.
  
• Allows students to review vocabulary.
  
• Encourages students to identify and highlight key words, phrases, and sentences to correctly answer questions.

3. Application - In the Application phase, the program:

• Reads the questions and answer choices.
  
• Provides visual feedback for answer choices.
  
• Exposes students to standardized test formats.