A wide range of activities that focus on essential grade-level skills and strategies. These activities are shaped and influenced by current research findings in literacy instruction grounded in the Reading First Initiative. Each activity book is divided into 5 units with reading selections in each unit that all center around a common theme. Each unit features the following skill strands: ? phonemic awareness (Gr. K-2 only) ? phonics/structural word analysis ? vocabulary ? fluency ? comprehension