Included below are:
1) overview
2) sample pages from the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade worktexts
3) Lesson Features
4) skills index for the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade worktexts

OVERVIEW
After carefully reviewing reading programs none have been found to come close to this! Since reading is the cornerstone to academic success not just any course will do. Only those students who can read and comprehend what they read have what it takes to excel in other courses. Therefore students must be given the tools to master an array of skills to be highly skilled in comprehension. While reading must appeal to students that alone will not give them a sound basis for reading and understanding. They need to develop specific skills. That is why this program was chosen. No other program measured up to its skills index! No other program has as complete a skills index using selections that are as interesting and educational as these! Curriculum Services has been using this program shortly after it came out over a decade ago.

What makes this reading program superior?
This reading program includes: 

• the most complete skills index of any program
• selections that were chosen for exceptionally high student appeal
• selections that are educational; mostly nonfiction, featuring science and social studies content
• vocabulary development
• study skills
• a teacher's edition that is cost effective
• a teacher's edition that is easy to use
• a teacher's edition that provides both answers and, while seldom needed, enrichment ideas
• a two color format that is visually attractive yet not too busy.

Skills Index (listed below)
Beginning from Analogy to Word Origin
  4th - 29 skills are taught
  5th - 30 skills are taught
  6th - 31 skills are taught

Our Criteria For Selecting Course Materials
Not only do we feel this is the best reading program for these levels it meets all our criteria. First and foremost on our list is the curriculum must be visually appealing but not too "busy". See sample pages below. It must also have student appeal while being as self-instructing as possible. In addition it must be comprehensive and adaptable to different learning styles. Because we specialize in providing write-in texts for our text supported courses we focus first on consumable text books and then compare them to their hard-bound counterparts. We were delighted to discover, once again, that consumable texts came in first place in all categories.
     Course materials must offer a balanced amount of work. If, for example, there is not enough course material it cannot be comprehensive enough while too much creates another host of problems. These include not allowing enough time to cover all the concepts or to go over concepts not readily understood. Also the problem of student and teacher burn-out in addition to not having enough time for recreation and other family activities. See articles SACC, One Subject a Day, and Testing.

SAMPLE PAGES

3rd grade Reading sample page: (This page shows the first page of a lesson.)

4th grade Reading sample page: (This page shows the first page of a lesson.)


5th grade Reading sample page: (This page shows the second page of a lesson.)


6th grade Reading sample pages: (Below are the third and fourth pages of a lesson.)

Lesson Features: (Showing pages taken from the 5th grade teacher's edition.)

SKILLS INDEX