READ NATURALLY STRATEGY PROGRAMS &
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
The Read Naturally strategy programs are designed
to support your core reading program by developing
fluency and word recognition, improving vocabulary,
and promoting comprehension through the researchproven strategies of teacher modeling, repeated
reading, and progress monitoring. Using carefully
leveled informational texts, these programs provide
ever-decreasing scaffolding until the students are
able to read challenging text independently.
Support by These Programs:
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Substrand or Skill
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Masters Edition ME
Phonics and Word Recognition
Range of Reading and Level of Text
Complexity
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Key Ideas and Details
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Fluency
Supports all standards Supports many standards Supports some standards
*Sequenced and Phonics series are no longer
available for purchase in the Masters Edition
The Read Naturally strategy programs support the
Common Core State Standards listed in the following
charts. In addition, these programs and materials
may be adapted to support additional standards.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
Standard
Fluency:
Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
Phonics and Word Recognition:
Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis in decoding words.
How Read Naturally Strategy Programs Support This Standard
All Read Naturally strategy programs develop reading fluency using challenging non-fiction stories.
Each student works through a set of carefully designed steps to reach a goal: to accurately and
expressively read text at an appropriate rate, self-correcting when necessary. The student is
accountable to read with purpose and must demonstrate understanding by answering
comprehension questions and retelling or summarizing the stories. Over time, the student reads
more difficult stories until he or she is able to read on-level text independently.
Read Naturally Encore or Masters Edition Phonics Series lessons teach phonics and word analysis
skills. A student listens to a phonics lesson about the key words and reads along with an audio
recording of a non-fiction story to learn words with the phonics patterns, as well as high frequency
words. Then the student applies the phonics and word recognition skills by reading the story and
word list independently until he or she is able to read them well.
Read Naturally Strategy Programs
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Read
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Masters Edition ME
Reading Standards for Informational Text
Standard
Range of Reading and Level of Text
Complexity:
Read and comprehend complex literary and
informational texts independently and proficiently.
How the Read Naturally Programs Support This Standard
In the Read Naturally strategy programs, each student works in a challenging level of
non-fiction stories to become a proficient reader. Read Naturally stories are carefully
grouped by level according to the Common Core State Standards criteria of text
complexity: quantitative measures, qualitative measures, and text/reader
considerations. The levels are sequenced so that the text complexity gradually increases
as the student moves to higher levels.
The stories in the lower levels are short and easy to understand, the ideas are explicitly
stated, and the vocabulary is familiar. At each successive level, the stories become
longer and more complex, the ideas require more inference, and the challenging
vocabulary is occasionally subject- or discipline-specific.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Analyze how two or more texts address similar
themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to
compare the approaches the authors take.
Key Ideas and Details:
Read closely to determine what the text says
explicitly and to make logical inferences from it;
cite specific textual evidence when writing or
speaking to support conclusions drawn from the
text.
Key Ideas and Details:
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and
analyze their development; summarize the key
supporting details and ideas.
In the higher levels of the Read Naturally strategy programs, each story is paired with
another story about a related topic. Each pair of stories has three comparison questions
that students can answer using knowledge obtained from both stories. In addition,
another set of comparison questions ties non-paired stories together. The comparison
questions encourage analysis across different topics and provide opportunities to make
deeper connections.
All Read Naturally strategy programs include comprehension questions that require
students to attend to key ideas and details in the text. Most series include main idea,
detail, vocabulary, and inference questions; at the higher levels, additional processing
questions require work in sequencing, summarizing, and drawing conclusions. However,
the questions from some series reinforce the focus of the series; for example, questions
in the Phonics series require that the student use a word with the featured phonics
pattern in the answer.
All Read Naturally strategy programs require students to be accountable for meaning
by including comprehension questions and/or summarizing activities. Each story has
questions about main idea or details. Students retell the story in the lower levels and
summarize the story in the higher.
Language Standards
Standard
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and
multiple-meaning words and phrases by using
context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts,
and consulting general and specialized reference
materials, as appropriate.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language,
word relationships, and nuances in word meaning.
How the Read Naturally Programs Support This Standard
Most Read Naturally strategy programs directly teach key words for each non-fiction
story, and all programs provide glossaries for learning the meanings of unfamiliar words.
All programs also have a vocabulary question using context clues, and some programs
have vocabulary questions that reinforce antonyms, synonyms, or short definitions.
The Masters Edition Idioms Series directly teaches common American idioms in the
context of non-fiction stories. Students use glossaries and demonstrate their
understanding by answering comprehension questions.
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