Key Features of Grade 2

• Stimulating and interesting texts with a balance of expository and fiction, covering different genre.
• Interactive CD-ROMs promote rapid reading development.
• Tested and used successfully in a variety of RTI programs.
• The assessment tasks use passages from texts in the program to assess how well students read seen texts.
• Assessments can be used as formative assessments with students any time after the week when the text is used for teaching and learning.
• AWARD Reading Inventories include oral reading, silent reading, questions on phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension. Fluency is assessed during oral reading.
• Scientifically researched material
• Meets individual state standards

Complete Grade 2 Program includes:

• 52 x 6 narrative texts (312 books)
• 3 narrative CD-ROMs (52 texts/156 activities)
• 5 narrative audio CDs (52 texts)
• 9 x 6 informational texts (56 books)
• 1 informational CD-ROM (9 texts)
• 2 informational audio CDs (9 texts)
• 3 Read to/with books in small and big book format
• 1 Read to/with audio CD (3 tracks)
• 1 AWARD Collection (64 pages) in small and big book format
• 1 AWARD Collection audio CD (32 tracks)
• 3 Teachers Guides (1380 pages)
• 54 Literacy Task Cards
• 110 Content Word Cards
• 36 Phonics Cards
• 1 Skills Chart
• 1 Assessment CD-ROM

Assessment

• 1 Assessment CD-ROM (12 texts)
• 6 Reading Inventories (photocopiable from the appendix to the Teachers Guide)