Reading Milestones Overview

An Alternative Reading Program for:

Deaf and hard-of-hearing students
Students with learning disabilities
Autistic students
Struggling readers

Now with Reading Milestones Interactive – Online Readers, Workbook, and Spelling Activities!

Methodology

Students work in very small steps, accompanied by constant reinforcement, to ensure continuing success in reading and language acquisition.
Vocabulary, language structures, and comprehension skills are introduced in small and constantly reinforced increments.
The Teacher’s Guide contains detailed, easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions for teaching each story.

Features

Adjusted language level
Controlled vocabulary
Controlled syntax

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Reading Milestones Program Research

Reading Milestones is the most popular reading program of its kind. This successful alternative, language-controlled program is designed to take readers to approximately a fourth-grade reading level. Reading materials are designed to match students’ language levels and progress in steps small enough to ensure their continued success in reading. Reading Milestones accommodates the needs of learners and has been developed to maximize their opportunities for success.

Reading Milestones includes

Instructions to develop phonemic awareness and phonics.
Repeated oral reading with feedback and guidance, development of word-recognition skills, and automaticity of vocabulary and sight words to improve reading fluency.
Development of vocabulary concepts including experiential activities and schema-based strategies, with activities reinforcing research-based comprehension strategies such as prediction, question–answer relationships, monitoring, and summarizing.

Package Components

Reading Milestones Interactive

RMPM: Reading Milestones Placement and Monitoring

Reading Milestones Print Kit Components

Levels 1–6. Each level kit includes:

1 Reading Milestones Interactive Student License
Teacher’s Guide
Set of Readers (1–10)
10 Student Achievement Records
Flash Drive with PDFs of Workbooks, Spelling, and Word Cards

Set of Readers (1–10)

READING MILESTONES READERS

(Print and Interactive)

Each level of the program includes 10 full-color Readers with 6 stories per book, for a total of 60 stories per level. The stories include a wide variety of diverse characters and settings.

Features include:

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 the Dolch List, Dale-Chall Word List of 3,000 common words, a revised core vocabulary of Grades 1–8, and more
Story structure is discussed 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

Teacher's Guide

TEACHER’S GUIDES

The Teacher’s Guides provide a foundation for each lesson in the program. Teacher’s Guides include specific, detailed 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.
Presentation of new concepts and vocabulary words.
Activities for establishing the purpose for reading.
Comprehension questioning strategies and activities for use during reading.
Instructional guidelines for Workbook activities, whether print or online.
Strategies for discussing Workbook activities focusing on metacognitive skills.
Postreading activities, including activities for developing an understanding of story structure, skills in phonological awareness, fluency, and story retelling.

Reproducible Materials

REPRODUCIBLE MATERIALS FLASH DRIVE

Flash Drive with PDFs of Workbooks, Spelling, and Word Cards is included in each level print kit.

Printed versions of these components are available separately.

WORKBOOK ACTIVITIES

Workbook activities are based on schema theory and are designed to develop comprehension skills. Tasks are constructed to develop literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, and problem solving.

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 activities provide reinforcement and practice for the literacy and comprehension skills taught through direct instruction during the reading period. The tasks become progressively more sophisticated as the students advance in the levels.

SPELLING

The Spelling program units coincide with each of the first five stories in the Reading Milestones Readers. No spelling activities are provided for the sixth story in each Reader because these stories have no new words. Spelling words are the new vocabulary words for each story.

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
Mastery Test

WORD CARDS

Word Cards, including all of the words taught in each level.

Student Achievement Records

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT RECORD (SAR)

Designed to document the student’s completion of each of the stories, workbook pages, spelling activities, and mastery test results in each level, the SAR serves as a useful, visual record of students’ progress. Each kit includes a package of 10 Student Achievement Records. An online version is completed as the student progresses through the Reading Milestones Interactive version. Additional packages of 10 Student Achievement Records are available to purchase separately.

Reading Milestones Interactive

READING MILESTONES INTERACTIVE

Included in each level kit is a 1-Student License for Reading Milestones Interactive, access to all stories and activities for Levels 1–3. Additional student licenses are available separately.

Reading Milestones Interactive

Now available, an exciting and fun online way to interact with Reading Milestones!

Read (or listen) to the Stories, and complete the Workbook pages and Spelling activities for Levels 1–3 online. These web-based activities increase interest and enhance the student’s reading experience. Teachers can make assignments, monitor progress, and create individual and group reports with an easy-to-use interface, available 24/7/365.

A single-student license for RMI, Levels 1–3, is included in each Reading Milestones print kit (Levels 1–6). Additional licenses are available separately. Each license gives one student access to all stories and activities in Levels 1–3. Licenses run from September 1–August 31 each year.

Stories in RMI

Stories in RMI

Read or listen to each of the stories from the Levels 1–3 Books—180 in all!

Workbook Pages in RMI

Workbook Pages in RMI

Workbook activities include interactive pages that are computer or teacher graded—2,690 in all!

Spelling Pages in RMI

Spelling Pages in RMI

Spelling activities include interactive pages that are computer or teacher graded—905 in all!

Teacher Interface

Teacher Interface

User-friendly account creation, assignments, grading, and reporting.

Progress Monitoring

Progress Monitoring

Monitor the progress of individuals and groups easily and quickly.

RMPM: Reading Milestones Placement and Monitoring

Now you can place students in the correct level of Reading Milestones and monitor their progress through the program.

RMPM: Reading Milestones Placement and Monitoring

Reading Milestones Placement and Monitoring (RMPM) is a valid and reliable assessment. It was designed to (a) provide an efficient guide to the identification of the initial instructional level within Reading Milestones, (b) establish a baseline of performance, and (c) monitor student growth within the program.

The RMPM can be administered by classroom teachers, special education teachers, reading specialists, school psychologists, or any other individuals with some training in standardized test administration. The test can be administered to entire classes, small groups, or individual students in approximately 10 minutes.

Two equivalent Student Record Forms (A and B) and a Student Progress Report are provided.

Special Features of the RMPM

Designed for use with any edition of Reading Milestones
For use with all levels of Reading Milestones (Levels 1–6)
Includes scoring keys for ease of determining results
Student Record Forms have both example items and practice items
Six scoring exercises are provided for examiner practice
Procedures for both class or small-group and individual administration are provided in the manual