The research-based Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies (CARS) series helps educators identify students' strengths and weaknesses in the 12 standards-based reading skills.
CARS focuses on the 12 key reading strategies to improve students' reading ability: finding main ideas, recalling facts and details, understanding sequence, recognizing cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, finding word meaning in context, drawing conclusions and making inferences, distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying author's purpose, interpreting figurative language, and summarizing.
The Educational Research Institute of America completed a study of the instructional effectiveness of CARS and STARS.
The CARS series is founded on research-based strategies and features that are designed to support students as they learn to read for meaning.
