Reading instruction workbooks and modules

These resources can be used with learners who are beginning to read. Level 1 readers are focused on learning sound-letter relationships, basic sentence patterns and vocabulary. They are reading narrative, chronological and descriptive texts that are directly connected to their everyday experiences. With encouragement, level 1 learners introduce new literacy practices into their everyday lives that often involve technology, such as using a shopping app to search for sales, reading and responding to text messages and reading level appropriate texts online to develop their abilities. Level 1 roughly covers similar skills, knowledge and insights from beginner to grade 3.

These resources help learners make the shift to reading more widely, including reading about new experiences, people and places. The focus is on reading regularly and engaging with the texts to support intrinsically motivated reading. They are making the transition from "learning to read to reading to learn." Learners are encouraged to incorporate literacy practices into their lives that involve communicating with others, such as reading and responding to posts and emails from a child's school or reading and responding to content questions in an online work training module. Level 2 reading skills, strategies and knowledge are roughly equivalent to grades 4 to 8.

These resources cover reading understandings aligned with a secondary level (grades 9 to 12), including college preparation and high school equivalency tests. Reading is more specific and in-depth within subjects like history or geography, to pursue very specific interests or to read certain types of genres, books and internet-based information. Learners need support to acquire understandings of literary, historical, political, cultural and scientific concepts as they explore different topics and subjects. They are able to respond to and use more complex literacy practices at school, at work and in their lives. For example, they can search for relevant healthcare information, read and take notes on subject-based content found in textbooks, identify disinformation and recognize reputable sites, etc.