Reading A-Z Overview

Learn about the Resources and Tools Reading A-Z Provides Students and Teachers

Reading A-Z contains a wealth of leveled materials and tools that enhance reading instruction and help teachers reach every student at every level. Watch this video to learn about the thousands of resources included in Reading A-Z and how they are used to provide the comprehensive assessment, instruction, and practice students need to improve their reading skills.

Reading A-Z delivers thousands of high-quality, affordable resources and tools teachers need to improve the reading skills of every student, at every level. This award-winning resource provides both printable and projectable materials teachers use to differentiate instruction for one-to-one, small-group, or whole class environments.

The product is famous with educators for its extensive collection of leveled reading resources, including more than 1,500 books at 29 levels of text complexity. Each book is accompanied by a wealth of supporting resources, such as a lesson plan, quiz, discussion cards, and worksheets.

Our proprietary, best-in-class leveling system uses over 20 quantitative and qualitative criteria to ensure resources are accurately and consistently leveled. With a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres available in each level, Reading A-Z's leveled books strengthen connections in literacy and content-area instruction. But leveled books are just the beginning!

To help readers develop necessary foundational and key reading skills, Reading A-Z provides a variety of teaching materials, including a complete phonics program, alphabet and high-frequency resources, shared reading books, readers theater scripts, fluency passages, and various assessments.

Many books and resources are also available in additional World Languages including Spanish, French, and British English.

Reading A-Z is committed to helping teachers address important 21st-century skills and state and national ELA curriculum standards. Close reading and project-based learning packs foster critical thinking, while simultaneously promoting student communication and collaboration. Comprehension skills packs, visual devices, paired books, and many other resources help develop literacy skills critical to students' long-term academic success, providing meaningful instruction and practice.

Reading A-Z also includes specific tools to make finding and organizing resources easier, including a search bar with advanced search functions and a customizable file cabinet.

Access the correlations area – to view resources that match state, common core, and international ELA standards, as well as other Reading Series.

Use the level correlation chart – to see how reading levels approximately correlate to other popular leveling systems. This chart and other great tools and videos can be found in the teacher corner!

Get started today with Reading A-Z and let us help YOU meet the needs of EVERY student.

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