What is Reading Mastery?
Reading Mastery is a six-level program teaching the full range of reading skills. Early levels of the program emphasize phonics instruction to develop a basis for comprehension. In the later levels of the series, students read some of the classics in great children’s literature by authors such as Mark Twain, Eleanor Clymer, and Langston Hughes. The program also encourages outside reading by providing study material for award-winning modern novels such as Charlottes’s Web and Island of the Blue Dolphins.Reading mastery also includes a strong writing component. From the very beginning of the program students write their own complete answers to questions rather than circling somebody else’s. By the end of the program students are not only answering questions, but writing at least one paragraph a day on issues related to their reading. They are taught to reflect, compare, evaluate, and to think.
