Key Features of Grade 3

• Grade 3 provides texts of increasing complexity over three levels—Gold, Silver, and Dark Green.
• CD-ROMs feature video clips, animated extension activities, and pdfs of the full texts.
• Interactive CD-ROMs promote rapid reading development.
• They have been tested and used successfully in a variety of RTI programs.
• Assessment tasks use passages from texts in the program to assess how well students read seen texts.
• These assessments can be used as formative assessments with students.
• 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 3 Program includes:

• 50 x 6 narrative texts (300 books)
• 3 narrative CD-ROMs (50 texts/100 activities)
• 28 Narrative and Informational audio CDs
• 9 x 6 informational texts (54 books)
• 1 informational CD-ROM (9 texts)
• 3 AWARD Collections (32 pages each) in small and big book format
• 3 AWARD Collection audio CDs (34 tracks)
• 3 Teachers’ Guides (1462 pages)
• 54 Literacy Task 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)