Orlando, FL (PRWEB) May 09, 2011
At the annual conference of the International Reading Association, the education services and technology company Pearson is showcasing a full suite of reading, writing, and language arts offerings to ensure that preK-12 students will be college and career-ready.
The programs address the vital areas of the Common Core State Standards research-based curriculum with embedded intervention, assessment, data management, professional development for teachers and administrators, digital learning, and school improvement:
Opening the World of Learning, or OWL (preK) A pre-Kindergarten program that integrates rigorous digital and print instructional materials for the nations youngest learners. OWL incorporates mathematics and science along with reading and language development and other critical skills throughout its lessons.
Reading Street (grades K-6) – Aligned to the Common Core, Reading Street is a comprehensive program for College and Career Readiness, featuring precise monitoring, and robust digital content.
My Sidewalks (grades 1-5) An intensive intervention program that accelerates the reading development of struggling students. The program aligns instruction perfectly with Reading Street, but can be implemented with any core classroom reading program.
Good Habits, Great Readers (grades K-5) A balanced literacy, reading and writing curriculum fully aligned to the Common Core that offers differentiated instruction focused on developing proficient readers.
Calle de la Lectura (grades K-6) – A comprehensive, research-based Spanish reading and language arts program series that accelerates all learners toward transfer with a sustained focus on comprehension skills and strategies, concept and language development, and writing for a variety of formats and purposes.
Quick Reads (grades K-5) – Through a unique combination of text and consistent instructional routine, this validated program will build capacity for increasingly complex text.
Developmental Reading Assessment2+ or DRA2+ (grades K-8) A research-based formative assessment of literacy designed to inform reading instruction and identify student reading levels, now with progress Monitoring.
Prentice Hall Literature (grades 6-12) – Prentice Hall Literature engages todays students through a comprehensive print and digital program that tackles the reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills outlined in the new Common Core State Standards.
Writing Coach (grades 6-12) – The interactive writing program gives immediate feedback to ensure students — whether they are on-level, advanced, struggling learners, or English language learners — grow into independent writers. The tool looks at students work in progress, one paragraph at a time, and analyzes the ideas, topic support, and organization in their essays.
Literacy Navigator (grades 4-10) Literacy Navigator is a supplemental, intervention program that aligns to the Common Core State Standards and helps students develop the reading comprehension skills they need to for college and career success.
OnTarget! OnTarget! provides teachers with online instructional reading resources designed to personalize learning, connect to reading assessment data and save time. Resources are available in English and Spanish.
WriteToLearn (grades 6-12) – Pearsons web-based tool for building writing and reading comprehension that helps students develop essay-writing and summarization skills.
Pearson Virtual Learning powered by Florida Virtual School (grades 6-12) Interactive, online courses that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards span all subject areas including advanced placement. For example, Conspiracy Code MindBender is a full high school course of intensive reading that is set on a gaming platform designed to test new literacies and higher-order thinking skills.
Pearsons full spectrum of proven professional development is available for review, including information on Common Core State Standards educator workshops; the Sheltered Instructional Operations Protocol (SIOP
