What is REWARDS?

Developed by award-winning education authors and literacy experts, REWARDS is a series of short-term reading and writing intervention materials specifically designed for struggling learners in grades 4–12. The series includes REWARDS Intermediate, REWARDS Secondary, REWARDS Plus, where strategies are applied to social studies and science, and REWARDS Writing, which helps students refine and sharpen their writing skills.

EVIDENCE BASED

The REWARDS family of reading and writing intervention materials is specifically designed
for adolescent struggling learners in grades 4–12, with every instructional activity
backed by sound research foundation and evidence to support its effectiveness.

REWARDS Intermediate Research REWARDS Secondary Research

Why REWARDS Intermediate and Secondary?

Increase student fluency, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension skills
Increase student success in content-area classes, especially where advanced reading skills are needed to understand concepts and context
Provide students practice with the types of questions asked on state tests

Effectively help all struggling readers, whether they are English language learners, students with reading disabilities, or those who have simply fallen behind
Explicit and systematic support for teachers
ESSA evidence level: Strong

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Who Benefits from REWARDS?

REWARDS Intermediate and REWARDS Secondary are specifically designed for students who are struggling with English language arts and need short-term strategies to get on track with their peers.

REWARDS Plus helps students by extending fluency and comprehension strategies to the content areas of social studies and science. REWARDS Writing provides explicit instruction for students who struggle with sentence refinement and structure.

What I Love about REWARDS

Katie Benning, Master Reading Teacher, talks about why REWARDS works in her classroom at Jerry Zucker Middle School in North Charleston, SC, and how her students vastly improved capacity for breaking down multisyllabic words and words they don’t know.

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FEATURES

Validated by independent research, REWARDS is a powerful suite of short-term interventions that yields long-term results. Key features include:

Decoding multisyllabic words
Identifying and understanding prefixes and suffixes
Increasing word and passage fluency
Building academic vocabulary

Deepening comprehension
Building self-confidence in reading
Rapid-paced, engaging, and explicit instruction for teachers
Constant teacher-student interaction

Step Up to Writing^® Fourth Edition is unparalleled writing instruction designed for learners of all levels and types in grades K–12.

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