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Reading
Grades 1-5
Give your youngest readers the extra practice that helps skills last. Measuring Up Reading is a supplemental program that works alongside your core Tier 1 curriculum. It gives students explicit, standards-based instruction and practice in vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension, so they build the skills and confidence to grow as readers.
Standards-based instruction to meet student needs
- Supplement your core reading program with extra, explicit practice on key grade-level objectives
- Use it for whole-class instruction, small groups, Tier 2 intervention, or summer school
- Monitor progress with lesson checks, unit assessments, and full-length practice tests
Standards-driven achievement
- Consistent four-part lessons build clear learning routines
- Real-World Connections show students why each skill matters
- Guided Instruction models every skill with step-by-step, scaffolded questioning
- High-interest literary and informational texts, including selections from Highlights for Children and Cricket Media
- Fluency Practice in every unit builds accuracy, rate, and expression
- Building Stamina® passages prepare students to keep their focus through longer texts
- Exit Tickets confirm that students can apply what they learned
A Real-World Connection opens each lesson. Students preview Words to Know, see what they will learn, and connect to what they already know.
Students read a passage with Guided Questions in the margin that model the skill step by step. Partner talk and teacher think-alouds build understanding before students work on their own.
Students apply the skill to a new text with Practice and Assessment questions. Critical Thinking items take their thinking further.
Students go back to the opening Real-World Connection to show they can use the skill. Then they reflect in a quick “How Am I Doing?” self-check.
Each skill is modeled with explicit instruction, kid-friendly definitions, and clear examples. Quick checks in the text let students try the skill right away.
Students go beyond the passage with questions that ask them to explain, apply, and defend their thinking. Elevate items push for deeper reasoning, and Together tasks have partners practice the skill through talk.
At the end of each lesson, students reflect on what they learned and name the questions they still have. Then they record their progress on the My Reading Skills Progress Chart.
Every unit ends with a passage the teacher models and students then reread on their own. Repeated reading builds accuracy, rate, and expression, so students can spend more of their attention on understanding the text.
Paired literary and informational passages, with test-formatted questions, close each unit. Students apply every skill from the unit on their own and build the focus they need for longer texts.
