Reading Mastery is a replacement to the core reading program. This means it is for students two or more years below grade level. Reading Mastery Classics is for grades 1 to 3 and Reading Mastery Plus is for kindergarten through sixth grade. Both programs cover reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Students are given a placement test and organized in small groups based on what lesson the placement test recommends they begin with.
Corrective reading is another replacement to the core program for students who are below grade level. It is meant as a replacement to the core and is for students ages 7 to 14. It is a direct instruction program addressing decoding and comprehension. It can be used as a supplemental program, meaning if you have a student who just needs work in decoding, pull them for 30 minutes of intervention and work with them on just the decoding strand. On the other hand, if you have a child struggling in both decoding and comprehension, use the program as his main program.
Systematic Instruction in Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words is a program to help students who struggle with decoding. The levels are beginning, extension and challenge.The program is for kindergarten through third grade and the level is determined by the placement test that comes with the program. The beginning level covers phonemic awareness, short vowels, single consonants and sight words. The extension level teaches consonant blends and inflections, final e and r-controlled vowels and vowel digraphs and high-frequency sight words. The challenge level covers syllables, roots and their meaning and prefixes and suffixes.
Read Naturally is a program to use with students who struggle with reading fluency. These are students who can decode but struggle with speed and accuracy. A passage is selected at the level the student is at. Then he listen to a model of a good reader reading the selection to them. He reads the passage several times to practice fluency. When he completes that, the teacher determines how much he improved from the first reading of the selection. Students work on the program for a minimum of three days a week, 30 minutes a day. The program is made up of 13 levels.