CURRICULUM
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. ® Master the foundations of reading
DIGITAL LEARNING
GRADE RANGE PreK to 2
Dr. Kay MacPhee was a lifelong educator, researcher, and author. Her journey began by helping her son, who was born hearing impaired, with speech and language and linking her research to discoveries in reading for
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T., Foundations In Reading, Sounds & Text , is a highly adaptive, foundational reading program for Grades PreK–2. Through phonemic awareness training and systematic phonics instruction, F.I.R.S.T. ’s research-based pedagogy trains the brain to master “speed of listening.” Students become automatic in their decoding skills, preparing them to read fluently and increase their reading comprehension.
INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS 3 Phonemic Awareness 3 Phonics 3 Alphabet Knowledge 3 Letter/Sound Recognition 3 Oral Language 3 Fluency 3 Vocabulary 3 Comprehension 3 Special Education 3 ELL
BENEFITS
• Ensure strong learning outcomes with a robust scope and sequence, grounded in research and trusted by educators.
• Personalize each student’s pathway to reading proficiency with highly adaptive technology and continuous formative assessments. • Seamlessly integrate into your independent-learning centers with an intuitive game-based approach.
all children. By 2007, Dr. MacPhee’s concepts were ranked #1 in teaching reading comprehension by the What Works Clearinghouse after undergoing the largest reading trial in the U.S.
• Easily access actionable data with robust reports that inform decision making at the student, class, school, and district levels.
FEATURES • Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. develops strong early reading skills through 24 levels of phonemic and phonetic activities and 85 ebooks.
SOLE SOURCE
• With motion events, young learners steer, tilt, and shake their way toward reading success. • Students learn in their zone of proximal development through continuous formative assessment and a patent-pending adaptive algorithm, READirect™.
“Phonological skills must be automatic, almost without thought, for reading to be fluent, smooth, and accurate.” —Dr. Kay MacPhee , author of Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.
SHOP HERE ONLINE
6
SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION SOLUTIONS 2022/2023
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs