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Instructional Worktexts

Teach all the ILS or just the ones your students need

How much time will it take to teach a complete level, including assessments, worktexts, and Building Stamina?

Whole class: 85 minutes weekly, year-round
Pull-out class: 55 minutes once a week for 4-6 months
Before/After school: 1 hour 2-3 times a week for 3-4 months
For intervention: Use selected lessons as needed

"Measuring Up has been a tremendous help to our teachers and students—so much so that the teacher will use it in more grades next year."

—	Rose Mary Mares, Principal

To ensure mastery, there are four parts to every Measuring Up lesson:

Focus on ILS
Introduces the lesson content, taps prior skill knowledge, and lists the ILS for the lesson
Guided Reading Instruction
Shows how to apply ILS skills and strategies to reading selections and includes Guided Questions that focus a student's attention
Apply the ILS
Students practice applying ILS knowledge as they read
ISAT Practice
Wraps up each lesson with questions that mimic the ISAT format

Building Stamina™ sections

Includes questions that tap higher-order thinking skills to foster success on the ISAT

Flexible design allows you to focus on ILS identified in each students' Personal Prescriptive Path (P3), select lessons that best supplement your basal text, or make Measuring Up® your primary text for comprehensive instruction and review.

Allows time for instruction by using short reading selections
Builds test-taking confidence with assessments that mimic the ISAT
Covers all the ILS — not just those on the ISAT

Sample Pages From Measuring Up for Illinois: Reading

Correlation to Illinois Learning Standards

Correlation to ILS Performance Descriptors

Sample Lessons

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