Edmark Reading Program
Second Edition

Widely regarded as the "one that works," the Edmark Reading Program has long helped students who need an alternative to phonics.

The key to this success is the program’s use of a carefully sequenced, highly repetitive word recognition method combined with errorless learning. This approach eliminates incorrect responses and helps students view themselves as readers.

The Edmark Reading Program ensures success to students of all ages who have not yet mastered beginning reading. The print version can be used independently or in combination with the Edmark Reading Program: Level 1 or Level 2, Software.

Meets the requirements of No Child Left Behind with lessons in

• vocabulary
• comprehension
• fluency 

Research-Based Instructional Strategies:

• Errorless Learning 
• Positive Reinforcement 
• Use of Manipulatives 
• Oral and sight word vocabulary 
• Controlled vocabulary stories 
• Social Skills Enrichment 
• Continuous Progress Monitoring 

What’s New in the Second Edition
The core content of the program remains the same and now includes many improvements. These include:

• New look — New illustrations appeal to children and adults 
• Organization — Simplified numbering and easy to plan and manage 
• Stories — Many new stories and full-color illustrations 
• Mastery Test — Integrated into the program to provide baseline data and periodic assessment 
• Lesson Plan/Record Book — Combines lesson planning and ongoing progress monitoring 
• Reading and Social Skills Games — Games with lesson plans teach social skills while reinforcing vocabulary and comprehension 
• The Rides — This new reader is a student reward for completion of Level 1 
• Judy’s Birthday Party — This new reader is a student reward for completion of Level 2 
• Word Signs–Level 1 and Level 2, DVD — A video word-signing guide demonstrating the 350 words from Levels 1 and 2 

Recommended For:
Students with developmental disabilities or Autism
Students with learning disabilities
Title 1 students
ESL students
Preschool and kindergarten students who lack vocabulary development
Non-Readers who struggle with phonics


LEVEL 1
Reading Level: K - Grade 1
Interest Level: K - Adult
Learning Opportunities:

• 150 Words from the Dolch Word List and basal readers 
• 3 Word endings: -s, -ing, -ed 
• Extensive comprehension practice of words, phrases, and stories 
• Visual memory of words Left-to-right reading/tracking 
• Thinking and discrimination skills 
• Association between oral language and print 

COMPLETE LEVEL 1 PROGRAM: Program Overview, Mastery Test, 5 Lesson Plan/Record Books, Word Recognition Books 1-3, Picture Match cards and boards, Phrase Match cards and boards, Stories 1-3, Reading and Social Skills Games, 2 Display Masks, Word Signs DVD, 5 The Rides and certificates.

LEVEL 2
Reading Level: Grade 1 – Grade 3
Interest Level: K - Adult
Learning Opportunities:

• 200 Words from the Dolch Word List and basal readers 
• Extensive comprehension practice of words, phrases, and stories 
• Visual memory of words 
• Left-to-right reading/tracking 
• Thinking and discrimination skills 
• Association between oral language and print 

COMPLETE LEVEL 2 PROGRAM: Program Overview, Mastery Test, 5 Lesson Plan/Record Books, Word Recognition Books 1-4, Phrase Match cards and boards, Stories 1-4, Reading and Social Skills Games, 2 Display Masks, Word Signs DVD, 5 Judy’s Birthday Party and certificates.

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New Fourth Edition

Reading Milestones
Levels 1-6, Fourth Edition

Edited by Stephen P. Quigley, Patricia L. McAnally, Susan Rose and Cynthia M. King

Reading Milestones is an alternative, language-controlled program designed to take readers to approximately a fifth grade reading level. It is a revolutionary program with syntax and vocabulary controls that targets five critical reading skills.

Reading Milestones is effective for students with hearing impairments and language delays and is also widely used with others who have special language and reading needs, including those with learning disabilities, developmental disabilities and English Language Learners. Reading materials are designed to match student language levels and progress in steps small enough to ensure continued success in reading.

Meets the Requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act and the National Reading Panel.

Features
The following features help ensure that students from many different populations can begin their reading experiences successfully:

• adjusted language level
• controlled vocabulary
• controlled syntax
• chunking (i.e., grouping of words by sentence constituents—noun phrase, verb phrase, etc.)
• repetition

The National Reading Panel Components
The Reading Milestones program incorporates the five essential components recommended by the National Reading Panel (NRP, 2000):

1. phonemic awareness
2. phonics
3. fluency
4. vocabulary
5. comprehension

This edition of Reading Milestones includes instructional and reinforcement tasks that focus on developing phonemic awareness and phonics in a language context in the Workbook activities, the Spelling program, and the Teacher’s Guide.

The NRP reported that repeated oral reading with feedback and guidance and well-developed word recognition skills lead to improvements in reading fluency. Repeated reading, although not necessarily oral, is a part of almost every lesson plan in the Teacher’s Guide. Extensive work on developing automaticity of vocabulary and sight words is presented in the Reading Milestones materials to develop fluency.

Extensive work on the development of vocabulary concepts is part of every reading unit. Experiential activities and schema-based strategies are strongly recommended for the development of concepts in young beginning readers.

Text comprehension receives major emphasis in the program with activities reinforcing research-based comprehension strategies such as prediction, question–answer relationships, monitoring, and summarizing.

Methodology
Many students with hearing impairments and other special language needs experience a significant gap between their language base and the materials they are given to read. Reading Milestones was designed and constructed to minimize this gap by beginning with the simplest possible language to ensure initial success in reading and by increasing language acquisition (vocabulary, syntax, figurative language). Students work in very small steps, accompanied by constant reinforcement, to ensure continuing success.

Vocabulary, language structures, and comprehension skills are introduced in small and constantly reinforced increments. The vocabulary was drawn from several high frequency word lists (including the Dolch Basic Sight Word List). All the essential comprehension skills-literal, inferential, evaluative, and critical reading skills-are introduced and practiced in the Workbook Activities. Chunking (the separation of phrases by several spaces) is used in the first three levels to aid in processing units larger than single words. Reading Milestones begins at the most basic language level. The program introduces vocabulary, syntax, and idiomatic language in very small steps and reinforces this learning before introducing new materials.

The instructional design used in Reading Milestones provides educators with sufficient information to make the reading series a self-contained program. Detailed, step-by-step instructions for teaching each story are provided in an easy-to-use format.

What’s New in the Fourth Edition:
The core content of the program remains the same and now includes many improvements. These include:

• Reading Milestones Placement and Monitoring (RMPM) — Separately available, this informal test places students in the correct level of Reading Milestones and monitors their progress through the program.
• New Look — Many new illustrations have been added to the stories included in the Readers for all levels.
• Teacher’s Guide - The Teacher’s Guide has been revised to include extensive information on recent research and best practices in reading. Strategies for teaching have been expanded and reformatted for clarity. Several useful appendixes have been added.
• Additional Stories — Many new stories have been included with increased multicultural representation and full-color illustrations. The number of stories in each Reader was increased for a total of 6 stories per book and 60 stories for each level.
• Story Structure – Many stories were rewritten to include more definite story structure. Knowledge of story structure helps students focus on the components and aids in comprehension.
• Story Page Layout — All sentences are complete on one page or on opposing pages to aid the student in developing fluency.
• Workbook Activities — All workbook activities are now provided as reproducible worksheets that can be printed from the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive, included in the kit. A boxed, printed version of black line masters is also available separately.
• Spelling — The Spelling program has been improved to develop phonological awareness skills, sound–spelling correspondence, provide additional practice in word recognition to attain automaticity, and improve accuracy in word spelling that will contribute to writing fluency. All Spelling activities are now provided as reproducible worksheets that can be printed from the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive, included in the kit. A boxed, printed version of black line masters is also available separately.
• Student Achievement Record (SAR) — used to record the student’s completion of each of the stories and activities in the workbook and spelling materials across a level of the program. Space is provided for comments regarding progress and recommendations. A package of 10 SARs is included in the kit.
• Word Cards — Vocabulary words taught in the program are displayed in two formats: as reproducible PDFs on the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive and as boxed, printed cards available separately. The cards are grouped and alphabetized by corresponding reader and numbered accordingly. Students can use the cards for practice in the Spelling and other lesson activities, in group games, and as flash cards in individual or group review.
• Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive — Included in each kit, now reproducible PDFs are available for all Workbook Activities, Spelling and Word Cards.

Readers

• Ten Readers per level, 6 stories per Reader
• Vocabulary and syntax gradually increase in complexity
• Glossaries in every Reader
• Lists of new words and syntax
• Pictures used as visual cues for words
• Story themes include fact and fiction
• Multicultural groups represented
• Urban and rural settings used in the stories

Workbook Activities

• Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive includes reproducible pdfs of Workbook Activities for each Reader (1-10)
• Picture/word matching exercises
• Word/sentence completion
• Story sequencing activities
• Creative writing
• Semantic mapping
• Completion is documented on the Student Achievement Record

Spelling

• Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive includes reproducible pdfs of Spelling activities for each Reader (1-10)
• Pretest and mastery test
• Range of spelling practice activities
• Completion is documented on the Student Achievement Record

Teacher's Guides

• One Teacher’s Guide per level
• Step-by-step teaching instructions for Readers, Workbook Activities, and Spelling
• Sample lesson plans
• Pre- and post reading activities
• Comprehension questions
• Supplemental activities-e.g., related books, class activities, subject-related activities

Included in the package: Teacher’s Guide, a boxed set of 10 Readers, Reproducible Materials Flash Drive containing reproducible PDFs of Workbook activities, Spelling, and Word Cards, a 10-pack of Student Achievement Records, all in a sturdy storage box.

Teacher’s Guides
The Teacher’s Guide provides a foundation for lesson development, focusing on concepts, vocabulary, and linguistic structures emphasized within each story. The Teacher’s Guide describes an interactive process of steps to guide students in the acquisition of information through print. The format for the guide includes instructional steps for the development of linguistic comprehension (vocabulary and syntax) and reading fluency.

For each story, the Teacher’s Guide includes the following:

• specific activities for developing and activating prior knowledge
• the presentation of new concepts and vocabulary words
• activities for establishing the purpose for reading
• comprehension questioning strategies and activities for use during reading
• post reading activities, including activities for developing an understanding of story structure, skills in phonological awareness, fluency, and story retelling

Also included are literature activities to assist the teacher in integrating classic themes and selected stories into the reading and language curriculum to present a balanced instructional perspective. Instructional guidelines for Workbook activities for each story are also included in the Teacher’s Guides, with specific activities for vocabulary practice, linguistic structures, story structures, and related skills. As the lessons progress, the guide provides the teacher with strategies for discussing Workbook activities that focus on metacognitive skills. Valuable resource and reference information for well-grounded instructional decision making and problem solving is interwoven into the lessons. The Teacher’s Guide has been revised to include extensive information on recent research and best practices in reading. Strategies for teaching have been expanded and reformatted for clarity. Several useful appendixes have been added.

Reader Packages
Each level of the program includes 10 Readers with 6 stories per book for a total of 60 stories per level. The stories include characters that represent the population of students using the program and the types of settings in which they live. In the fourth edition, increased representation was also given to ethnic and disability groups.

Features

• Syntax controls including sentence length, number of syllables, level of abstraction
• Vocabulary controls such as the number of new words per story, multiple meanings, and word structures
• Vocabulary sources include Dolch List, Dale-Chall list of 3,000 common words, a revised core vocabulary of Grades 1-8, and more
• Story structure is included to focus students’ attention on the components of the story and aid in comprehension.
• Comprehension skills including understanding the main idea, locating details, sequencing, drawing conclusions, and more
• Chunking of phrases or constituents of sentences in the first three levels

Reader package includes: 10 full color readers in a boxed set

Workbook Activities
In this edition, the Workbook activities, which were provided in individual, consumable workbooks in previous editions, are provided as reproducible worksheet pages that can be printed from the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive or the boxed set of black line masters and reproduced as needed for your students’ use.

Workbook activities are based on schema theory and designed to emphasize the development of comprehension. Tasks are constructed to develop literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, and the solving of problems. A variety of procedures are used: semantic maps, semantic feature analyses, story maps, word maps, and word analogies. Other tasks include:

• matching print and pictures
• classification
• sequencing
• story structure
• phonological awareness activities

The Workbook pages provide activities that serve as reinforcement and practice for the skills the teacher has taught through direct instruction during the reading period. The tasks become progressively more sophisticated as the students advance in the levels and provide reinforcement of basic literacy and comprehension skills.

Spelling
The Spelling program units coincide with each of the first five stories in the Readers. No spelling activities are provided for the sixth story in each Reader because these stories have no new words. The Spelling program activity sheets are reproducible and are found on the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive, which is included with the program or in the boxed set of Spelling black line masters, which is available separately.

The phonological awareness activities in the Spelling activities have been designed to reinforce the direct instruction on development of phonological skills provided during the reading period. Several of the activities in the Spelling activities have been changed to reflect a more developmentally appropriate sequence. The emphasis on phonological awareness activities has been increased in this edition.

Spelling words are the new vocabulary words for each story. For several of the units, the teacher has the opportunity to add additional spelling words that are key words in other areas of study such as math, social studies, and science.

The Spelling program is designed to:

• develop phonological awareness skills
• develop sound–spelling correspondence
• provide additional practice in word recognition to attain automaticity
• improve accuracy in word spelling that will contribute to writing fluency

The Spelling program consists of the following components: Pretest; Word Practice; Alphabet, Visual, and Phonological/Phonics Instruction; Study Method; and Mastery Test.

Student Achievement Record (SAR)

The Reading Milestones Student Achievement Record (SAR) is a document designed to allow the teacher to record the student’s completion of each of the stories in the Readers and activities in the Workbook and Spelling materials across a level of the program. The four-page SAR includes a Spelling Chart to show visually the student’s mastery test results from all stories and books in the level. Sections for each of the 10 books are included to record:

1. Date the student completed each story
2. Number of Workbook and Spelling pages for each story the student completed successfully
3. Space for comments regarding progress and recommendations.

Included in package: 10 Student Achievement Records

Word Cards

Vocabulary words taught in the Reading Milestones program are available as word cards in two formats: as reproducible PDFs on the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive and as boxed, printed cards available separately. The cards are grouped and alphabetized by corresponding reader and numbered accordingly. Students can use the cards for practice in the Spelling and other lesson activities, in group games, and as flash cards in individual or group review.
 

Reproducible Materials Flash Drive
Available for each level of the Reading Milestones program, the Reading Milestones Reproducible Materials Flash Drive includes PDFs of:

• Workbook Activities
• Spelling
• Word Cards

**The new Reading Milestones Fourth Edition readers and workbook and spelling pages can be used with the now out-of-print third edition materials.

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Reading Bridge
Second Edition

Stephen P. Quigly / Patricia L. McAnally / Susan Ross / John Allen Payne / Peter V. Paul

Reading Bridge provides a bridge from Reading Milestones to general reading materials at fourth and fifth grade levels. The series introduces vocabulary, language structures, and comprehension skills in the same spiraling, researched-based approach as in Reading Milestones but at an accelerated rate and more advanced level. Reading Bridge consists of four teacher's guides, four student texts, and four student workbooks.

Each teacher's guide contains: a discussion of the program foundations; a Scope and Sequence Chart for each book; activities, guidelines, and suggestions for introducing, reviewing, assessing, and re-teaching specific skills; suggested questions to supplement those in the student's text; an answer key for workbook activities; and suggested enrichment activities.

The hard bound texts consist of two units with seven or eight stories in each unit. The contents represent a balance of fiction and nonfiction stories, including poetry, biographies, fables, folk tales, and other formats. Every story begins with a series of questions that teachers can use to assess, activate, and add to the prior knowledge of the students - that is, to prepare students with the background knowledge needed for application in the comprehension process. Comprehension questions are provided at the end of each story; mid-unit and end-of-unit review questions are also included. Finally, a glossary is at the back of the texts. This handy glossary gives the meaning of the new vocabulary and sample sentences.

The student workbooks provide practice activities for the major components of Reading Bridge: vocabulary and concept development, comprehension, and research and study skills. To develop the workbooks, the following guidelines were used: (1) tasks should be relevant to instruction, concepts, and skills presented in the teacher's guide; (2) some tasks should provide a cumulative review of important information that has been previously taught; (3) extra activities should be available for students who need them; (4) the vocabulary level of the workbooks should be similar and reinforce that used in the readers; (5) all instructions should be clear, unambiguous and easy to follow; (6) student response modes should entail mostly reading and writing, and (7) some tasks should be fun to do.

This reading series should quickly become a favorite reading comprehension tool. Students will like the variety of interesting topics enriched by attractive illustrations and photographs. They will be on their way to mainstream reading curriculum in no time with the help of Reading Bridge.

Reading Bridge Level 1:

Reading Bridge Level 2:

Reading and Writing English

These programs focus on beginning vocabulary, reading and spelling of basic English words and English sentence structure. They feature a variety of games and opportunities for young children to learn new concepts. Plentiful help avoids frustration and leads to success.

They were designed by an award-winning children's software designer with the assistance of teachers and parents of deaf children. All software was tested during development in schools and homes by deaf children and adults.

System requirements for all 7 CDs: Macintosh System 7 through 9 and OS X, or Windows 95/98/2000/XP

First Color Words

Learn to read and spell the names of ten basic colors, by playing five motivating games. One game teaches the colors, using American Sign Language, Cued Speech, Fingerspelling, or Speech. The other four games teach reading and spelling of the color words.

Live video is used for signing, cueing, and fingerspelling. Animation speed is adjustable.

Ages 4-6

Match Pix

Learn to read over 150 words important for beginning readers. Lots of help makes learning fun!

Match Pix Menu Screen
Three games (Matchup, Tic Tac Toe and Bingo) match pictures to printed words. Three additional animated games (one each in American Sign Language signs, fingerspelling, and Cued Speech) ask the viewer to match the English word to a video demonstration. Speed is adjustable.

Word Group Selection
There are fourteen word groups such as animals, numbers and colors. Each group has 10 or more words in it. Players can select a word group at any time.

Ages 5-7

I Can Spell!

Build skills in spelling and vocabulary with over 475 words and pictures. Use the spelling lists provided or make your own with the spelling editor. Cues are available for those who use Cued Speech.

Choose a spelling list and see a preview of the words and matching pictures. You can also load a list you made. Then select a game to practice the words or test yourself.

Word Scrambler Game
In learning mode, you unscramble letters to make a word, and you can briefly view the word you're trying to spell. Then when you've learned the words, test yourself in the game. Win a prize for every correct word.

Word Speller Game
In this game you are shown how many letters are needed, but not what they are. In learning mode, click letters or type on your computer keyboard to spell a word. This game helps you learn new words. If you don't know how to spell a word, click the "show word" button for a brief look at the word. After you know the words, play this game to test yourself. Click letters or type on your computer keyboard to spell the word and win prizes.

Ages 6+

Computer Fingers

Build skills in vocabulary, reading, spelling, keyboarding, and fingerspelling. For cuers, also build skills in phonics. Three games with multiple activities make learning fun.

Computer Game
Start to play by exploring the keyboard. Then pick a word to spell. Explore the keyboard to see the relationship between upper and lower case letters, the manual alphabet, and cued letters. Choose the word you want to spell. There are three sets of 10 words each. Spell words dictated one letter at a time and see them come to life. Fewer keys show on the keyboard when you make a mistake, to help you find the right one.

Matchup Game
This classic memory game helps children learn letters and words. A help feature shows what the matching card looks like, but not where it is! Match letters to handshapes of the manual alphabet. Match words to pictures.

Name the Word Game
You can play this game one of two ways: identify the picture for the word that is spelled manually, or that is cued. You can vary the speed for the animated cuer and the animated hand in each game.

Ages 4-6

Who Do-What Where

Learn basic sentence parts and sentence structure. Progressive activities in two levels lead to success in building and analyzing simple sentences. Learn concepts by sorting. Focus on one concept at a time. Build a sentence, part by part, then analyze the sentence you just built. Find a picture for the sentence part. Find the words for the sentence part in a sentence you built.

Ages 6-8

Animals from A to Z

Learn the names of over 80 animals, birds and insects and see the habitats where they live while practicing cueing or fingerspelling skills. Have fun putting animals in the petting zoo or a habitat scene. Look up animals in the ABC picture dictionary. Identify the animal that was fingerspelled or cued. View the animated Cue Index of all 40 English phonemes. You control the speed of the animated cuer or fingerspeller.

Ages 4-6

Word Family Fun

Learn common spelling patterns and vocabulary with word "families" such as "bat, cat, hat" in the "at" family. There are 45 word families with over 300 illustrated words. Build skills in reading, spelling and fingerspelling. For Cuers, build skills in phonics.

Ages 6-8

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